Rank Among 50 States: 35th
| Overall grade: | D |
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Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Corruption Risk in New Hampshire - State Integrity Investigation
Corruption Risk in New Hampshire - State Integrity Investigation:
Rank Among 50 States: 35th
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Rank Among 50 States: 35th
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State Integrity Investigation-What's Your State's Grade?
State Integrity Investigation:
Open records laws with hundreds of exemptions. Budget decisions made behind closed doors. Ethics panels that haven’t met in years.
Open records laws with hundreds of exemptions. Budget decisions made behind closed doors. Ethics panels that haven’t met in years.
Those are among the examples of corruption risk we found in the State Integrity Investigation, an unprecedented examination of America’s state capitols. The bottom line? Not a single state earned an A grade in the year-long investigation. Half the states earned D’s or F’s. Find out what your state is doing right and wrong. See your state’s report card.
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Small Savings on the Backs of Foster Children
Small Savings on the Backs of Foster Children - NYTimes.com:
In 1853, Charles Loring Brace, a patrician reformer, devised a plan to remediate the circumstances of New York City’s 30,000 homeless children, many of whom passed their days as desperate salesmen hawking rags and newspapers, and who had acquired the label, absent a world of ethnic sensitivities, of “street Arabs.” Founding theChildren’s Aid Society, Brace controversially arranged for abandoned children to be sent, by rail, to farm families — “kind, Christian homes in the country” as he put it, typically where they would work. By 1929, approximately 100,000 city children had been relocated across the country, often with no sense of where they would be going, in what became known as the Orphan Train movement and was the precursor to the American foster care system.
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In 1853, Charles Loring Brace, a patrician reformer, devised a plan to remediate the circumstances of New York City’s 30,000 homeless children, many of whom passed their days as desperate salesmen hawking rags and newspapers, and who had acquired the label, absent a world of ethnic sensitivities, of “street Arabs.” Founding theChildren’s Aid Society, Brace controversially arranged for abandoned children to be sent, by rail, to farm families — “kind, Christian homes in the country” as he put it, typically where they would work. By 1929, approximately 100,000 city children had been relocated across the country, often with no sense of where they would be going, in what became known as the Orphan Train movement and was the precursor to the American foster care system.
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Drug issues propel rise in foster care in Maine
Drug issues propel rise in foster care in Maine | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram:
As more children land in state custody, Health and Human Services officials say they need extra funding.
AUGUSTA – Substance abuse problems among young parents have driven up the number of children in foster homes by 35 percent over projections, prompting state human services officials to seek an extra $4.2 million from the Legislature.
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Terry Achane baby: Soldier wins 22-month custody battle and finally reunited with daughter
Terry Achane baby: Soldier wins 22-month custody battle and finally reunited with daughter | Mail Online:
It's about time. The baby should have been given to her father a long time ago!
Terry Achane returned from work to find his wife had given newborn daughter away for adoption
The girl spent 22 months with the Frei family, who say they are devastated at losing the child
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It's about time. The baby should have been given to her father a long time ago!
Terry Achane returned from work to find his wife had given newborn daughter away for adoption
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Title IV-E Adoption Assistance
Title IV-E Adoption Assistance | Children's Bureau | Administration for Children and Families:
May 17, 2012
Program Description
The Adoption Assistance Program provides funds to States to facilitate the timely placement of children, whose special needs or circumstances would otherwise make it difficult to place, with adoptive families. Authorized under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, and amendments, the Adoption Assistance Program provides Federal matching funds of 50 to 83 percent, depending on the state's per capita income. Funding is contingent upon an approved State plan to administer or supervise the administration of the program. The State must submit yearly estimates of program expenditures as well as quarterly reports of estimated and actual program expenditures. Funds are available for a one-time payment to assist with the costs of adopting a child as well as for monthly subsidies to adoptive families to assist with the care of the eligible child. Additionally, funds are available for: administrative costs to manage the program; training staff and adoptive parents; adoptive parent recruitment; and other related expenses.
The fifty (50) States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are eligible to participate in the Adoption Assistance Program awards. The average monthly number of children receiving IV-E Adoption Assistance in FY 2008 was approximately 381,000.
Budget Information
The program is funded at $2,160,000,000 for FY 2008.
Tortured Twice In Louisiana; A Sad Abused Ten Year Old Boy Facing Prison For Escaping His Abuser
Tortured Twice In Louisiana; A Sad Abused Ten Year Old Boy Facing Prison For Escaping His Abuser | INVISIBLE CHILDREN:
Joseph Hall was a *tortured little ten year old boy and a ward of the state when he shot his nazi father in the head in Louisiana. His father held monthly hate filled nazi gatherings in the home & in drunken a drug fueled rage he beat his son severely and regularly.
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Joseph Hall was a *tortured little ten year old boy and a ward of the state when he shot his nazi father in the head in Louisiana. His father held monthly hate filled nazi gatherings in the home & in drunken a drug fueled rage he beat his son severely and regularly.
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