Peter Hutchison was a Management Insights contributor. He is president of the Bush Foundation, and was a founder of the Public Strategies Group, commissioner of finance for Minnesota and superintendent of schools for Minneapolis.
Foundations and corporations can be terrific partners for governments, but there are limits. For one thing, writes Feather O'Connor Houstoun, they can't fill budget gaps.
Health care is literally eating our families out of house and home -- and our governments out of education, transportation and human services. Four key problems, writes Peter Hutchinson, make transformation necessary.
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