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Amid deep cuts to youth services, Trump includes big increase to child welfare entitlement

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Amid deep cuts to youth services, Trump includes big increase to child welfare entitlement

John Kelly, The Chronicle of Social Change (May 26, 2017)

President Trump’s budget proposal contains a 13.5% increase in Title IV-E funding for state foster care and adoption, but also includes a $153 million cut in federal foster care for unaccompanied minors, a system that is already deeply underfunded.

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Child migrants face new crisis: Uneven justice. Children without lawyers, or in particular states, are much more likely to face removal orders, a POLITICO analysis finds.

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Child migrants face new crisis: Uneven justice. Children without lawyers, or in particular states, are much more likely to face removal orders, a POLITICO analysis finds.

Politico (March 5, 2015)

A POLITICO analysis of government data shows that fully 88 percent of the removal orders issued since July have gone to children without an attorney. What’s more, a juvenile assigned to judges in Texas, North Carolina and Georgia in the past 16 months was at least three times more likely to receive such an order than a child in California, Florida or New York.

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