Jac West Jac West

Foster Care, The State, and $$$

“But to youth advocates, the fact that many agencies spend children’s money on children’s services doesn’t make it better. That means kids are being made to pay for their own foster care — a public service that federal law and laws in all 50 states require the government to pay for.”

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Jac West Jac West

Death, Racism & Taxes

A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind: Dorothy Brown has spent her career as a law professor documenting racism in a tax system that’s supposedly colorblind. via Bloomberg

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