The report notes that Black and other nonwhite families are more often investigated, that “poverty is conflated with neglect” and the child welfare system has “detrimental impacts on the ...

One in three Black children in Maricopa County faced a child welfare investigation over a five-year period. Some families are pushing back. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel Advertise ...

Today, nearly one in ten Black children are separated from their families by the child welfare system, a rate more than double that of White children. But this is not a recent phenomenon.” ...

The powerful myth that welfare recipients are “couch potatoes” or “welfare queens”—a stereotype that portrays recipients of government aid as poor, unmarried Black mothers who live ...

At a Juneteenth event in Newport News, E.W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, said that slavery did not destroy black families, but government welfare programs launched in the ...

For Black families in Phoenix, child welfare investigations are a constant threat One in three Black children in Maricopa County, Ariz., faced a child welfare investigation over a five-year period ...