Donald Cohen
donald@inthepublicinterest.org

Donald Cohen is the chairperson of In the Public Interest, a new resource center on privatization and government contracting. In the Public Interest has a network of scholars and practitioners with considerable expertise in public contracting, public budgeting and the provision of quality public services.

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Ask the right questions before privatizing, not after
ASK THIS | July 189, 2011
Public officials are succumbing to the promise of easy money and privatizing services and infrastructure -- at great long-term cost to the public and to democracy. The head of a new resource center on privatization writes that if our leaders won't do it then it's up to the media to ask tough questions, before it's too late.