New Website Exposes Top 12 Privatizers and Profiteers in America
Across the country, for-profit companies are privatizing our schools, roads, prisons, drinking water and, sometimes, even the government itself.
Today, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) launched OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org , a resource that functions like a Wikipedia page, devoted to helping taxpayers identify the corporations seeking to privatize public services in their communities.
The first profiled corporation is food supplier Sodexo, which provides food services to private corporations, government agencies, schools and universities, military bases, hospitals, clinics, senior residential facilities and correctional facilities.
From Outsourcing America Exposed:
In 2010, Sodexo was caught fomenting a race to the bottom in food service, by choosing food suppliers based not on quality but based on which supplier could give them the highest cash rebate for the contract. [6] This iced out small local farmers and other quality food suppliers in favor of big agriculture and big business that could best engage in the kickback scheme. [7] After an attorney general investigation, Sodexo paid an eye-popping $20 million in 2010 to settle claims that it overcharged 21 New York school districts and the State University of New York (SUNY) system for food and facilities services from 2004 to 2009. [8] New York's case led to a "major investigation" by at least three other state attorneys general, [9] and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Office of Inspector General began a nationwide audit in October 2011 for alleged systematic taxpayer fraud by multiple firms. [10]
Check out the video in the post , illustrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, and visit OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org each week for more information.
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