Guest post by Irv Katz, president and CEO of the National Human Services Assembly

I assume many Independent Sector members and readers of this blog have seen the Washington Post op-ed by Bridgespan’s Daniel Stid. Harking back to Eisenhower’s warning of a Military Industrial Complex, Stid suggests that human services in the U.S. now comprise a Social Services Industrial Complex, which is, by extension, comparable to the Military Industrial Complex. The metaphor is clever but the case is sketchy at best.

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