The child welfare system in the United States is a structure intended to protect children and ensure their well-being.

Neither presidential candidate said much about poverty ... children’s futures. Only intact families can defeat entrenched poverty. But for fathers to play this role, we need, in effect, welfare ...

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s ... one factor in promoting upward mobility for children. Because welfare is anti-work and anti-marriage, it inherently ...

The lawsuit argues the discrimination is evident in the “historic, pervasive, and ongoing overrepresentation of Black families in Minnesota’s child welfare ... the basis of race that are ...

The breakdown of marriage is one of the greatest drivers of child poverty. Policymakers should eliminate the penalties for marriage in the welfare system. The rate at which marriage reduces the ...

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there are more than 56,000 children on welfare in the city, out of 237,000 children living below Hong Kong’s poverty threshold. With a total youth population of slightly more than one million ...

Earlier this month, the independent watchdog monitoring Maine’s child welfare agency went before the legislature’s government oversight committee and admitted frustration. In recent years, she ...