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A postscript to Frances Fox Piven's excellent "Thompson's Easy Ride" [Feb. 26], on the elevation of Wisconsin Governor (and die-hard welfare reformer) Tommy Thompson to Health and Human Services Secretary: Wisconsin's independent Legislative Audit Bureau recently released a report showing that Employment Solutions, one of the "nonprofit" private agencies running the Milwaukee welfare program, spent more than $370,000 of Wisconsin's TANF [Temporary Assistance to Needy Families] money on things like staff time and expenses trying to get welfare contracts in Arizona, and legal fees to determine whether its lobbying would jeopardize its nonprofit status and staff parties.
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