Fifteen years ago, Michigan’s child welfare system was in shambles.
Rather than protecting children, too often the system pulled them from homes only to allow them to languish in a bureaucracy, bouncing from foster home to foster home. In the worst cases, children were abused and neglected again.
Some disappeared.
And thousands would never find permanent homes, according to a 2006 lawsuit against the state.
Now, Michigan appears to be doing a far better job protecting vulnerable children so much so that the state appears poised to finally become extricated from more than a decade of federal court oversight of its foster care system.
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very he is 59 years old. he is older so he put it into conservative investments and it will spin off a low amount of income for him on an annual basis. it the food stamp money federal money or michigan money. i know you are from michigan. it is a federal program but administered by the state of michigan department of human services. you are his attorney. it s legal. is it morally right? that is not why i m here. i m here to talk about if it is legal or not. the ethical debate is between him and himself. he did everything he was supposed to do. leroy is a simple man. on our way out here today we went to a starbucks. it is the first time he has been to a starbucks. he is not a man of great things in the sense that he has $850,000 cash. what are you talking about he