Editorial: Too many errors in welfare trial

Source: Indianapolis Star (IN), September 29, 2009 


 

 The Daniels administration has approximately two weeks before telling the world whether a welfare privatization experiment that's been plagued with problems for nearly three years is fixable.

 

It will be remarkable, to say the least, if the IBM-led team that was given a $1.34 billion contract to manage assistance to the needy has cleaned up an act so ragged that the state was compelled to call a timeout on the takeover and give an ultimatum -- compliance by fall or cancellation of the 10-year deal.

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