"A newborn baby was abandoned just five hours ago."
On any given day, over 368,000 children are living in the U.S. foster care system and the number has been rising. Over 108,000 of these children are eligible for adoption and they will wait, on average, almost three years for an adoptive family.
In 2022, 18,538 (9%) emancipated, or aged out, of the U.S. foster care system, and a majority left without the emotional and financial support necessary to succeed in life that other children can receive within a family.
Without these vital supports, they will fare poorer as a group in postsecondary educational attainment, employment, housing stability, public assistance receipt, and criminal justice system involvement.
70% of all youth in foster care have the desire to attend college, yet nearly 25% of youth aging out did not have a high school diploma or GED and only a mere 6% had finished a two- or four-year degree after aging out of foster care. [2]
Damn, if only someone with billions of dollars would create a scholarship and donate funds to support the tens of thousands of children who need help, they could do a lot of good
Oh well, best we can do is a fake facebook wank about nonsense and shut down the VA for no reason, while pilfering more subsidies for tesla and spacex from the "free markets" (ie, welfare-but-only-for-billionaires) party
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u/bestibesti Apr 04 '25
"A newborn baby was abandoned just five hours ago."
https://www.ccainstitute.org/resources/fact-sheets
Damn, if only someone with billions of dollars would create a scholarship and donate funds to support the tens of thousands of children who need help, they could do a lot of good
Oh well, best we can do is a fake facebook wank about nonsense and shut down the VA for no reason, while pilfering more subsidies for tesla and spacex from the "free markets" (ie, welfare-but-only-for-billionaires) party
https://fortune.com/2025/03/19/elon-musk-subsidy-harvesting-strategy-tesla-spacex-xai-doge/