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- Outsourcing Social Services: Eliminating Public Watchdogs
Outsourcing is promoted as a way to save money, improve services, and shake up so-called “unaccountable bureaucracies.” But in reality, it often fails on all counts, especially in attempts to outsource human and social services.
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- Occupational Licensing of Social Services and Nursing Home Quality: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
- Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational Upgrading
- State Actor Orchestration for Achieving Workforce Development at Scale: Evidence from Four US States
- Macroeconomic Feedback Effects of Medicaid Expansion: Evidence from Michigan
- States can improve supports for infants and toddlers who are in or at risk of entering foster care
