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Article: Yes to Charitable Choice.("faith-based organizations" help fund welfare)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- August 7, 2000
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Charitable choice, a set of rules that encourage "faith-based organizations" (FBOs) to participate in government-funded welfare programs, was once an obscure player in the drama of welfare reform. But no longer. In campaign 2000 charitable choice is playing opposite the two leading men, George W. Bush and Al Gore. Both have been falling all over themselves to praise FBOs as providers of social services, and the party conventions will feature more of the same.
Bush was the first of a small number of governors to aggressively implement charitable choice. When he emerged on the national scene, many progressives shrugged off his pursuit of FBOs, saying, in effect, ...