Claudia Rowe

A native New Yorker, Claudia has been a social issues reporter for more than two decades, focusing on race, class, education, corrections and juvenile justice.

Foster Care

A foster system paradox: Parents billed for care of their children

Studies show charging child support extends family separations and can spur years of debt for parents in poverty. WA is pushing to change the practice.

March 22, 2022

Government

Aged out and alone at 18

February 15, 2013

InvestigateWest secures $250,000 gift as the newsroom expands across the Northwest

A Starlink lab exposed unsuspecting workers to toxic chemicals. Records show SpaceX didn't act until the state got involved

InvestigateWest lands $450,000 grant from Inatai Foundation

A foster system paradox: Parents billed for care of their children

Aged out and alone at 18

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