A new chapter in America's child welfare system
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
At the end of last year, Congress passed the largest overhaul of the nation’s child welfare system in more than 15 years.
The reform includes more support for kinship care, aging out youth and efforts to prevent the separation of families due to poverty.
How these reforms will make a difference for children and families in the U.S.
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| 0:50.0 | A little earlier this month, January 4, 2025, to be exact, |
| 0:55.0 | the first major overhaul of the federal child welfare system in more than 15 years was signed into law. |
| 1:02.7 | It passed Congress with bipartisan support, and it's poised to change the lives of families who depend on the federal child welfare system. |
| 1:10.8 | So you'd think that with this major good news, President Biden was... the lives of families who depend on the federal child welfare system. |
| 1:23.6 | So you'd think that with this major good news, President Biden would have held a signing ceremony at the Oval Office, and every news outlet from CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NPR would have run a story on it. |
| 1:25.7 | But none of that happened. |
| 1:30.1 | President Biden had no glitzy signing ceremony. In fact, |
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