Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store.
There is an ongoing problem of drug shortages.
Railroads are, like utilities, “natural monopolies.”
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Bernie Sanders's Green New Deal proposal includes the United States moving to 100 percent public ownership of our power grid.
A Green New Deal is now on the agenda. Activists should embrace the public ownership option: mass decarbonization, using the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.
To counter the FCC’s attack on net neutrality, we need to start treating the Internet like the public good it is.
“We would line up all of our inhalers in a row on the benches before we would go run, just in case,” recounts Kristen Ethridge; an Indiana resident near some of the most polluting power plants in the country.
Labour’s plans to pursue democratic models of ownership are the most radical aspect of Corbyn’s program.
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