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As a result of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, more children who have experienced abuse or neglect will be able to leave foster care for good to join safe, permanent families.  The new law includes several key recommendations offered by the national, nonpartisan Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care.

Law Designed to Improve Lives, Outcomes of Nation's Foster Children and Youth

As a result of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, more children who have experienced abuse or neglect will be able to leave foster care for good to join safe, permanent families.  The new law includes several key recommendations offered by the national, nonpartisan Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care.

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Pathways to Economic Mobility: Key Indicators

The assumption that anyone can get ahead based on capability and effort is central to the idea of the American Dream. This report from the Economic Mobility Project provides an overview of the factors that seem to most affect the likelihood that someone will move up, or down, the economic ladder in the United States.More

 

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Public Not Desperate About Economy or Personal Finances

Public Not Desperate About Economy or Personal Finances

Americans are concerned about the nation’s economic problems and they register the lowest level of national satisfaction ever measured in a Pew Research Center survey. But there is little indication that the nation’s financial crisis has triggered public panic or despair.


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Don Kimelman on Pew's Civic Initiatives and the Pew Research Center

Don Kimelman on Pew's Civic Initiatives and the Pew Research Center

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