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Controversy Over Privatizing National Park Work

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: brett cochrane
1 October 2003 - 8:00am

The National Park Service -- once dismissed by the former director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget as the "world's largest lawn-care service" -- is the prime target of an unprecedented push to privatize federal jobs.

The Senate may resurrect [an] unprecedented push [by the Bush administration] to privatize federal jobs deemed "commercial" in nature...what was once a relatively obscure domestic policy issue for the Bush Administration, has now become a heated debate.

Full Story: Park Service controversy over outsourcing
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, September 24, 2003
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