Indiana is cited as the primary example for how privatizing delivery of services such as food stamps and Medicaid can go wrong, but other states also get mention.
Toll roads? Traffic doesn’t change much, and certainly isn’t likely to ramp up, in a recession.
Food stamps? Different story. And, I bet that in the Indiana case, IBM once again assumed that Alan Greenspan and his magic bubbles had permanently banished recessions.
Apparently, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa didn’t read the WSJ story; he wants to open LA schools to privatization bids.
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August 12, 2009
Privatizing human services work backfires on states
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recession 2009
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