A bill that could help address the racial disparities in the state foster care system, specifically the disproportionate number of Black children who encounter the system, is again front and ...
Children enter the system for a number of reasons, but the leading causes of foster placement in the state are neglect, parental substance abuse and parental incarceration, according to the ...
The federal Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) program, which offered qualified participants a $30 monthly benefit to help with internet bills, is winding down. What does that mean for ...
Mahmoud Issa/Reuters Oxfam, an aid group, has calculated that hundreds of thousands of people ... Dr. al-Farra said he was seeing many children in a similar state. “You can find malnutrition ...
The building is one of scores of sites being used to accommodate the growing number of families with nowhere to live, amid a surge of thousands of migrants to Massachusetts, the only state in the ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
Thousands of demonstrators call for the release of hostages held in Gaza and against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in Tel Aviv. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post ...