On this week’s podcast we discuss a multi-million dollar jury award in a “hidden foster care” case; a bill to offer employers a tax credit to hire current or former foster youth; another state moves to protect faith-based discrimination; and the New York mayoral candidates talk child welfare. Ricky Watson, executive director of the National Juvenile Justice Network, joins us to discuss local and national efforts to establish a minimum age for arresting and processing youth.  Reading RoomAP: N.C. County Illegally Removed Kids from Homeshttps://bit.ly/3bNi5xdVerdict: Federal jury awards millions to daughter, father separated by Cherokee County DSShttps://bit.ly/2RmrkgGTax Incentive to Hire Foster Youth Back in Congresshttps://bit.ly/3faVuLIWe Asked the New York City Mayoral Candidates About the High-Stakes Child Welfare System. Here’s What They Said.https://bit.ly/NYCchildwelfareStill Bridging the Opportunity Divide for Low-Income Youth: Year Up’s Longer-Term Impactshttps://bit.ly/33L4QITJuvenile Arrests in 2019 Continued Long Downward Trendhttps://bit.ly/3hqd6pDRaising Our Standards by Raising the Minimum Agehttps://bit.ly/3uRYR0K

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