In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
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Over a five-year period, more than *700 children* in Georgia were removed and placed in foster care solely due to "inadequate housing."
During that same period, DFCS devoted less than 0.05% of its budget to housing assistance for families who needed it.
One mother was charged nearly $13,000, with interest, and threatened with jail when she couldn’t pay.
Red states = inhumanity is the point.
Even with all our god fearing Christian’s we are morally corrupt.
A bunch of 🤬ing maniacs in charge everywhere!
what a diagrace
doesn't take up this as an expose in Jan 2025?
Seems the people of #Georgia should be informed of how Kemp & the state continues to mismanage & harm families, instead of help
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@senossoff.bsky.social
The cruelty is the point.
Further marginalizing Black people is the point.
Further marginalizing poor people is the point.
The system isn't "broken", it's performing exactly as intended.
It cannot be "fixed" and must be replaced.
I disagree. Doesn’t mean I’m right.
Hope I haven’t triggered you.
I shudder to think of your opinions on criminal justice, policing, and the prison system. All of which YOUR system is built to uphold and provide more fodder for.
Some people might harbor ill will pretty close to the surface.
Others might be totally oblivious and would be horrified to learn that’s how they come across.
I then relocated to a blue county in another state. They helped change lives. 💙
It should be noted that there are many corporate child services, group homes, and foster care.
They have a vested interest in maintaining the staus quo.
Maybe even only $3k.
Let me guess: foster family was white?
Here are their specific qualifications for housing assistance
https://extranet.azdcs.gov/DCSPolicy/Content/Program%20Policy/03%20Case%20Planning%20and%20Services/06%20Basic%20Services/CH3_S06_2%20Housing.htm
It doesn't matter which political party. Fix it.
https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English
welfare benefits for 22,501 children based on characterizing their mothers as immoral for having children outside of marriage.
Fuck you, GA. We would not need foster care if families (mostly headed by women) got the care they needed.
https://www.scottsantens.com/universal-basic-income-as-the-social-vaccine-of-the-21st-century-ubi/
I do support tying UBI to kids, but a lot of the progressive technobros who support UBI will oppose it if it "incentivizes" the Wrong People having More Kids
...that this so-called #pro-life initiative was just a ploy to increase the "low-wage" workforce, via reduced education, resources, and basic "survival of the fittest" mentality!
This happened in the 1880s, 1930s, 60s, 80s, and now...
And, you STILL didn't listen! 🤬
Our tax dollars meant to support families is going to private companies profits.
Basic
Income
IS
america
Poverty can be a reason for the authorities to take your kids away. When they go to foster parents, these people get: a minimum of 700 EUR per month per child with a max of 861 from 18 y/o!!!
For profit healthcare system
For profit prison system
For profit foster care system
This isn't capitalism, it's greed.
Oh wait actually that's California
https://bsky.app/profile/mhairiforrest.bsky.social/post/3lekgslbrn22f
Belief in the PG does not require that someone be a Christian. I think he's demonstrated belief in Peale teaching for decades.
Wouldn't it have been better spent on housing and feeding that family and helping the mom get a living-wage job?
Nope. Profiting off destroying lives is 100% who we are and we have been this since colonization. It must end!
Expose the system for what it actually is, a money laundering grifting machine!!
Hold their feet to the fire!!
It is actually cheaper to not means test disability claims, than to do means test based claims, and yet, which do we do?
🤬🤬🤬
Gotta love that follow through. 🙄