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I safeguard this blog for foster care-related news, including upcoming trends that can positively or negatively impact foster care youth who...

Trends in the Summer Employment / Population Ratios of the Nation’s Teens 1989 – 2010 According to the Center for Labor Market Studies : ...

According to The Undereducated American , a report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce: The United States...

According to the Multi-State Study on Psychotropic Medication Oversight in Foster Care conducted by the Tufts Clinical and Translational S...

According to the CLASP fact sheet Yesterday's Nontraditional Student is Today's Traditional Student: 47% of undergraduates are ind...

According to the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, students with savings accounts in their name — regard...

According to the New England Journal of Medicine : "Expansions of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are de...

According to Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial-Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students : Since the early 1980s, college tuition and fees ...

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Mediocrity  says: "Let's just keeping doing the things we've done before, regardless of whether or not our efforts are effecti...

The Ohio Department of Development has released their 2011 Ohio Poverty Report which notes that approximately 1.7 million Ohioans, or abou...

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices  released a 2010 report on The Transition to Adulthood: How States Can Support ...

Did you know that: Each year 26,000 youth emancipate from foster care on their 18th birthday and often lose critical Medicaid health cover...

Dated January 5, 2011, and authored by the Georgia Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children , this report makes vital recommendations...

Normalcy for Foster Care Youth "For many years youth in state care were not able to participate in the same types of activities as the...

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Quote from The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler: "Most of the people I write about in this book do not have t...

On December 20, President Obama signed the reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), which funds services to...

Counting the Invisible Man: Black Males and the 2010 Census (2011) , published by the Twenty-First Century Foundation and Frontline Solut...