Privatizing Social Services - The US Experience

Privatization (Part 1):
Social-services market adapts to lessons of outsourcing.
02.24.2005 -
By Todd Cohen

Five years ago, flush with tax revenues in a booming economy and aiming to farm out social services under a federal policy designed to move people from welfare to work, state and local governments were fueling competition between nonprofit agencies and for-profit providers for services ranging from day care to job training. (more...)

Part 2: For-profit contractors turned to nonprofits to deliver social services.

Part 3: Outsourced social services fall short of expectations.

Part 4: Drive for profits can create gaps in delivery of social services.

Part 5: Nonprofits last resort for delivering social services.