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The Best of Reason Magazine Logo | Joanna Andreasson

Government abuse

The Best of Reason: Child Welfare Systems Are Trapping Innocent Families

Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?

Emma Camp | 7.9.2024 6:03 PM

CPS1 | Photo: Courtesy of Tony Schulz

Government abuse

Child Welfare Systems Are Trapping Innocent Families

Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?

Emma Camp | 7.6.2024 6:00 AM

Addiction counselor Rudy Carey, in a side-by-side with the Virginia law forbidding employers from hiring people who have been convicted of certain "barrier crimes." | Illustration: Lex Villena; Institute for Justice, law.lis.virginia.gov

Clemency

Rudy Carey Was Pardoned, but the Unjust Law That Kept Him From Working Is Still on the Books

Virginia’s barrier crime law limits employment prospects for ex-offenders, who often find their way back into the penal system when they can’t find work.

Sofia Hamilton | 3.4.2024 4:02 PM

Family of four shopping at the supermarket. | Photographerlondon | Dreamstime.com

Religion

Brickbat: Ideological Impurity

Charles Oliver | 8.25.2023 4:00 AM

Kid on steps looking dejected | Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye/Newscom

Reason Roundup

Another Analysis Suggests Mandatory Reporting Laws May Be Doing Children More Harm Than Good

Plus: Virginia lawmaker wants to criminalize parents who don't affirm child's gender identity, inflation is up 8.2 percent over the past 12 months, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.14.2022 9:34 AM

Screen Shot 2021-11-17 at 1.12.57 PM | Stossel TV

Regulation

This Social Worker Wants To Help Special Needs Kids. Louisiana Says She Has To Prove She's Needed.

The state "wants to limit how many agencies they have to regulate," says Ursula Newell-Davis.

John Stossel | 11.18.2021 7:00 AM

cryingbaby_1161x653 | Julya_shylova / Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: You Can't Put a Price on Family

Charles Oliver | 7.8.2019 4:00 AM

Large image for longform feature pages. | Joanna Andreasson

Bureaucracy

Can Big Data Help Save Abused Kids?

The quest to fix our messy, meddlesome foster care bureaucracies

Naomi Schaefer Riley | 1.22.2018 8:10 AM

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