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30 Issues: Foster Care

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Monday, October 10, 2005

30 Issues in 30 Days continues with a look at the city’s foster care system. In the late 80’s there were 50,000 children in the government’s care. Now the number is down to 18,000. Though foster care is not the crisis it was ten years ago, advocates say it should still a campaign issue.

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Dante Chinni, political columnist for the Christian Science Monitor
- on the news from Washington DC

» Dante Chinni's columns in the CSMonitor

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30 Issues: Foster Care

Andrew White, director of the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School
- on improvements in the city's foster care system and where the new problems lie

» The Center for New ...

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