I'll address the issue of federally funded employment programs. I'll give you a concrete example.
We have an employment program designed to place and support people with severe mental illness who are homeless. The initial process we submitted and the initial funding we received was based on a best practices model that has been well researched in North America. Unfortunately, through bureaucratic tampering, a program that was designed to provide supports to people for 24 months after they were placed was cut down to three months. So it became a program that produced great statistics in terms of people getting to work, but whether they kept their job for five minutes or five months was all that the funder was interested in. We were interested in people getting and keeping jobs.
Certainly keeping the bureaucracy out of best practices models is going to make a big difference in terms of the effectiveness of the dollars that are spent.