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Project Milk Carton brings clarity, compassion, and practical action to missing-children awareness, child welfare, and the public systems meant to protect children.
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- Sep 12, 2026
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The Foster Care Gold Rush, Part 5: The Reckoning (opens the original)
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This is the final part of a five-part series. Part 1 covered the law that was supposed to end child warehousing. Part 2 followed the money. Part 3 covered what happens to children inside these facilities. <a href="https://projectmilkcarton.substac
The Foster Care Gold Rush, Part 4: Who Was Supposed to Be Watching (opens the original)
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This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Part 1 covered the law that was supposed to end child warehousing. Part 2 followed the money. Part 3 covered what happens to children inside these facilities. Part 4 asks who was supposed to be watching. The complete version of this report is available as the exhaustive report.<div
The Foster Care Gold Rush Part 3: (opens the original)
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This is Part 3 of a five-part series. Part 1 covered the law that was supposed to end child warehousing and how certification became a paperwork exercise. Part 2 followed the money through Title IV-E, Medicaid, state contracts, and the four largest residential operators. Part 3 covers what that money buys. This one is hard to read. The complete version of this report is available as the exhaustive report.
The Foster Care Gold Rush, Part 2: The Money (opens the original)
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The Foster Care Gold Rush Part 1: The Promise and the Paperwork (opens the original)
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This is Part 1 of a five-part series. The complete report was first published in May 2026 and remains available here. Part 1 covers the law that was supposed to end child warehousing, what federal investigators found seven years later, and how a reform built on certification became a paperwork exercise.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9pCf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%
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