A Hidden Lesson of the Minnesota Welfare Scandal

Mihaela Măncilă

At the federal level and on down, American government has come to rely heavily on nonprofits to deliver public services. This dependence is in many ways understandable, but it comes with serious risks. Feeding our Future, the Minnesota nonprofit whose employees were caught billing for services they didn’t provide, was not the first instance of an NGO stealing from taxpayers , nor will it be the last. NGOs—private nonprofits that receive government funding—theoretically offer a nimble, targeted

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