Homeland Security’s ‘welfare’ check on Idaho migrant students raises school privacy questions
In other parts of the country, the welfare checks have resulted in children being taken out of their homes and put back into government custody
Those on both sides of a federal lawsuit see daunting obstacles to providing safer, healthier places for kids to spend their nights.
Poverty, disability, homelessness wouldn't qualify as sole reason to take kids away
Inadequately treated human waste from 79 sewage treatment plants is an important and growing cause of a breakdown in the Puget Sound ecosystem that is causing unnatural explosions of jellyfish and smelly algae, among other effects.
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