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Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in fostercare are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.
Now he wants the Justice Department to investigate these chains for allegedly defrauding Medicaid and violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Imprint and The Hill have stories. Once again, though, Wyden is focusing on the fact that three of the chains are for-profit corporations. OK, I admit it.
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We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than fostercare or massive surveillance, its also safer. But the fearmongers will never give up their horror stories because horror stories are all theyve got. The Imprint and The Hill have stories.
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