US: U.S. youths leaving care given cash, and time, as COVID spurs action
Thomson Reuters Foundation – May 23, 2022
Like many teenagers in foster care, Korah Loyd dreaded her 18th birthday. “It was a collective joke among foster kids: When you turn 18, what street are you going to live on?” Loyd, who is now 28 and lives in Seattle, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred policy action targeting social inequality in the United States, and concern about the plight of youngsters “aging out” of the care system has prompted moves to help foster youths shift to financial independence. About 23,000 young Americans each year reach leaving age in the foster system, and the effects are stark, said Jacqueline Burbank, communications director with the National Foster Youth Institute.
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