One family’s TWO YEAR nightmare of having their child taken by the state
"How free are you really, when all that’s required for the state to take your children away from you is a judge with an ax to grind?"
"How free are you really, when all that’s required for the state to take your children away from you is a judge with an ax to grind?"
"Police, with the help of the Trump Justice Department, are doing an end run around the state law requiring that money seized by state law enforcement agencies goes solely to the state's schools."
"More than six months later, Customs and Border Protection still has not given back her money. This, despite the fact that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of Texas did not bring a civil asset forfeiture case against her or charge her with any crime."
"The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be available in most commercial smartphones within two years."
"The woman shot was between the ages of 16 and 24 and was shot 'in the head with a single gunshot.'"
"East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned."
"Chicago required the use of lead service lines between street mains and homes until Congress banned the practice in 1986. Yet as Mayor Rahm Emanuel borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to overhaul the city’s public water system, Chicago is keeping lead service lines in the ground."
"Family and community are the only things left in Adams County, Ohio, as the coal-fired power plants abandon ship and the government shrugs."
"Guess where the economically forgotten people live? The majority of these 'ALICE' households live in America’s largest cities."
"70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license."