Howard Husock, Forbes

Politics, Philanthropy and SOTU

The more individualized attention a problem calls for, the less well-suited government is to dealing with it—and the more likely independent, charitably-supported groups are. By that standard, government has been over-reaching—with poor results to show—and would do better to narrow its efforts.

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