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Responding to Welfare Privatization: New Tools for a New Age
Privatization
of the operation of public benefit programs in the wake of welfare
reform diminished the effectiveness of traditional approaches to
advocacy. A case study from New York City of how private contractors
succeeded in reducing welfare roles while imposing punitive policies on
poor families offers a glimpse of possible new advocacy tools. Requiring
contract-monitoring bodies that involve community members and advocates
could help facilitate transparent contracting processes and reshape
social welfare programs to serve clients.
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- Peter Edelman, Welfare Reform and Extreme Poverty: What to Do? (Nov.-Dec. 2008)
- Mary R. Mannix et al., Public Benefits Privatization and Modernization: Recent Developments and Advocacy (May-June 2008)
- Jodie Berger, Cooperative Advocacy: Working with the State to Improve Programs (Nov.-Dec. 2006)
- John M. Bouman et al., Time Limits, Employment, and State Flexibility in TANF Programming: How States Can Use Time Limits and Earnings Disregards to Support Employment Goals, Preserve Flexibility, and Meet Stricter Federal Participation Requirements (Sept.-Oct. 2003)
- Henry Freedman, The Welfare Advocate’s Challenge: Fighting Historic Racism in the New Welfare System (May-June 2002)
- Special issue: The Implications of Privatization on Low-Income People (Jan.-Feb. 2002)
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