With a media-ready case against the city’s child welfare system, Marcia Robinson Lowry steps up to defend children who never should have been taken into foster care.
Despite pressure to increase the number of adoptions from the pool of children in foster care, the figures have actually dropped this year–and everyone has their own theory as to…
Mayor Giuliani castigated federal agencies for coming into Elian Gonzales’ home with guns drawn. He should have checked in his own backyard first.
The mayor pointed to his own police…
New York State has a long list of anti-poverty programs that are funded with federal welfare monies. The dirty little secret: through the miracle of accounting, hundreds of millions are…
An independant panel has released its fourth report on the state of New York City’s child welfare system, and the news about how caseworkers perform is anything but good.