Strapped Arizona CPS poised to cut key services, By Mary K. Reinhart, December 13, 2012, Arizona Republic News: “Arizona’s child-welfare agency is cutting basic services to families and imposing new guidelines that could limit use of other programs in budget-cutting moves that could keep children in foster care longer, according to documents obtained by The Arizona Republic. Among the documents is a recent memo that blames the cuts in services on a projected multimillion-dollar budget shortfall at state Child Protective Services…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty