Word: program
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...very poor. Connecticut's welfare administrators, swept up in the national tide of reform, decided last year to inject a little private enterprise into their tired bureaucracy. They awarded a $12.8 million contract to Maximus Inc., based in McLean, Va., to put a shine on a state program that pays for child care for working welfare recipients. But within months Maximus found its operations in the kind of disarray it usually takes government years to achieve. More than 10,000 of the 17,000 bills submitted by child-care providers were over 30 days late in being paid. Day-care...
...states struggle to reinvent welfare, privatization has become one of the hottest trends. To beleaguered welfare officials, hiring private contractors to run state welfare programs holds the promise of unleashing the efficiency and flexibility of the market on dysfunctional state bureaucracies. And to the private companies that are moving aggressively into the field, it dangles the possibility of big profits and high-flying stock prices. Privatization has had some notable successes. In some states it has increased the number of welfare recipients going to work by operating well-managed training and job-placement programs. In others it has raised child...
Maximus, as well as the other private welfare companies, can point to a number of successes across the country. Its "Fairfax Works" program in Fairfax, Va., has moved thousands off welfare into real-world employment, free from government subsidies. A Lockheed Martin welfare program in Dallas has placed 76% of its clients in new jobs paying an average of $431 a week, exceeding federal goals. But the growing number of cases in which things have been going wrong have begun to capture more of the headlines. A Maximus child-support-collection program in Colorado has come under fire...
...there any role for private companies in welfare reform? The best case for it is the poor job government has historically done on welfare. For all Maximus' problems in the Connecticut child-care program, the state operation it took over had major flaws of its own. Three of its four child-care systems were not even computerized, which meant workers had to calculate benefits by hand and store data in folders. With all this in mind, Connecticut decided after a review last month to continue Maximus' contract and triple the amount it pays per child-care case. Welfare...
Camdessus: It would be extremely serious, not only for the world but for the country itself. After all, what we have agreed with Indonesia was not some theoretical vision of the world. It was the well-thought-out program we agreed was in the best interests of Indonesia. To renounce this now would be to renounce an undertaking seen by the entire world as the best course for the country...