The American Rescue Plan Should Help Foster Youth Hurt By The Pandemic Opinion
Craig is not much different than the tens of thousands of young adults who have recently aged out of the foster care system across this country and been forced into homelessness because they do not have relationships with biological parents or other family. Every year, 20,000 young people age out of the foster care system, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources, and many join the more than 700,000 unaccompanied minors experiencing homelessness across the country....