The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children IV: How Child Welfare Funding Fared During the Recession

December 2005 The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children IV: How Child Welfare Funding Fared During the RecessionThe country's economic downturn over the past several years has left many public and private child welfare agencies struggling to survive. But even with mounting fiscal constraints, states spent $22.2 billion in federal, state, and local funds in 2002 to protect abused and neglected children. That was an 8% increase over the $20.8 billion spent in 2000, according to a study from the Urban Institute.The study, the fourth in a series, analyzed how all 50 states and the District of . . .