The Nation

For Women of Color, the Child-Welfare System Functions Like the Criminal-Justice System

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WIBW

Kansas Department for Children and Families to modernize state’s child welfare system

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) announced on Tuesday, July 22, three contracts have been awarded for the department’s new Comprehensive Child Welfare ...
JSTOR Daily

Potential Games Are Necessary to Ensure Pure Nash Equilibria in Cost Sharing Games

We consider the problem of designing distribution rules to share "welfare" (cost or revenue) among individually strategic agents. There are many known distribution rules that guarantee the existence ...
The Norman Transcript

Providing for our common welfare is a proper function

After reading several letters to the editor decrying Casey Holcomb’s March 1 letter, I am compelled to write a letter in support of Holcomb’s viewpoint. In regard to Dave Spaulding’s opposition to an ...
Statesman Journal

Audit: Oregon child welfare tracking system 'adequate' but needs work

The information system used by the Oregon Department of Human Services for tracking millions of records and people involved with child welfare is "adequate" but needs work. That's especially true when ...