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The Uncertain Hour: How for-Profit Companies Cash in on Public Benefits

This season of The Uncertain Hour, we uncover how for-profit companies cash in on public benefits. In 1996, one law changed welfare in the U.S. by adding work requirements and letting for-profit company run welfare offices. Government is one of your customers. Businesses are another. Are they? I think of them more as the product of our company. They're our inventory. You help cover the cost of the rigorous reporting you're hearing in this episode. Every donation makes a difference.

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