Illinois lawmakers push to ensure foster children move placements with luggage, not trash bags, but a key bill stalls.

“We need to empower kids to ask for things that they’re ... instances where foster children have arrived at CASA using “trash bags, milk crates, anything they can really get their hands ...

“The day I was handed the trash bag was the day I lost every last bit of who I was,” Riley told members of the Senate Committee on Human Services. Kids placed in the Oregon child welfare system often ...

SPRINGFIELD — Four years ago, the General Assembly unanimously approved a law aimed at ending a routine indignity faced by foster children who, lacking luggage of their own, sometimes moved from home ...

sometimes moved from home to home with their belongings in a trash bag. As a result, the Department of Children and Family Services was required to “ensure” that children being removed from ...

In the first seven months of the bill's implementation, the state still recorded trash bags being used by foster kids 62 times. U.S. and Ukrainian officials meet for first time since Oval Office ...

Volunteers pick up thousands of pounds of trash each year from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The annual Spring Clean ...