CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio child welfare advocates are celebrating the state’s newly passed budget for mostly restoring housing funds for youth in state and county care. However, some fear that ...

Embattled child welfare agency appoints new director in Santa Clara County Wendy Kinnear-Rausch will lead an agency plagued with low morale, staffing shortages — and resentment ...

Children and young adults in the U.S. foster care system suffer from mental health disorders and die by suicide at far higher rates than the general population, yet the system doesn’t uniformly screen ...

The high court on June 30 rejected another challenge to California’s controversial animal-welfare law, two years after narrowly upholding the state’s requirements on the sale of pork products.

DHS launches child welfare initiative to locate at-risk migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors, uncovering cases of abuse, exploitation, and labor trafficking.

Gov. Tina Kotek issued three vetoes on June 24, all for bills related to child welfare and the Oregon Department of Human Services.

California’s politicians want you to believe they’re trying to rein in sky-high gas prices. They’re not. What’s really happening is years of restrictive policies and overregulation are ...

The crisis of the welfare state—fiscally unaffordable but politically unreformable—afflicts nearly every 21st-century Western democracy. And the revolt last week against British Prime Minister ...

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a second bite at the apple to review California’s law requiring pork sold in the state to come from pigs raised with sufficient living space.

Child care providers and their union want the state to up the rates it pays them to care for children from low-income families.

Lawmakers on the powerful Legislative Finance Committee on Wednesday slammed New Mexico's child welfare chief over multiple high-profile failures by her agency to prevent child deaths in recent ...

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to California's Proposition 12, an animal welfare law affecting pork production. Iowa pork producers argued the law unfairly burdens out-of-state producers ...