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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

NPR Series on Foster Care and Native American Children

Native foster care: Lost children, shattered families, Series homepage, By Laura Sullivan and Amy Walters, National Public Radio: “Nearly 700 Native American children in South Dakota are being removed from their homes every year, sometimes in questionable circumstances. An NPR News investigation has found that the state is largely failing to place them according to the law. The vast majority of native kids in foster care in South Dakota are in nonnative homes or group homes, according to an NPR analysis of state records…”