More Texas youths placed in foster care, By Robert T. Garrett, May 13, 2010, Dallas Morning News: “Texas’ foster care rolls have surged, outstripping expectations by more than 1,000 youngsters this year, Child Protective Services officials said Thursday. State child welfare authorities attributed the surge in part to strains on families caused by the recession. They also noted that CPS workers are more inclined to remove children from homes, after a rash of high-profile child deaths and as workers and state district judges got used to a federal appeals court’s 2008 edict tightening child-removal procedures in Texas…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty