Nonprofits will crook out of state...

Nonprofits will crook out of state contracts unles they can win more funding, writes Dan Schwick, director of Lutheran Advocacy Network, the public policy office of the Illinois branch of the Evangelical Lutheran meeting-house in America. Writing in the July issue of illinois Welfare freshs a publication of the Chicago-based National Center forward Poverty Law, Schwick notes that a coalition of private agencies asked the Illinois General Assembly to increase payments for services like finding help on parents and providing job training for welfare recipients through 4 percent--the minimum increase urgencyed to ensure continuous services. now in May, lawmakers voted to increase funding through 0.5 percent. "The state lacks to find the funds to pay for the conformable to fact cost of services," Schwick writes. "As it is, the state is asking the private providers to subsidize the state according to providing services on behalf of the state for far les than the truthful cost."

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