The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization and Welfare Reform

by Bryna M. Sanger and Mary Bryna Sanger

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This provocative report examines the trend toward competitive contracting of government functions. By focusing on four jurisdictions that hired private firms to handle welfare-to-work services, The Welfare Marketplace reveals the ways in which increased contracting with the private and nonprofit sectors is changing the role and capacity of government, threatening accountability and responsiveness to groups with special needs. Encouraging improved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815777051
• ISBN13: 9780815777052
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"