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How a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities

How a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities

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Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a National Book Award finalist. Author Claudia Rowe exposes the chilling truth: the nation's foster care system is a "major gear" driving mass homelessness and the incarceration crisis in American cities. She shares shocking statistics—including studies that found up to 59% of youth who grew up in foster care have been incarcerated by age 26—and outlines how the system's structural failures lead to such devastating outcomes. Rowe joins us to share the story of this broken system through the eyes of the former foster care kids who lived it, and she argues for a fundamental transformation grounded in modern brain science.

Our editor is Quinn Waller.


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