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EDUCATION EVOLUTION
Children of the State (4-Part Series)
062: Part One - Incentives
A recent CPS story in Concord, NH got me thinking about my own professional history, on the "other side of the gun." I spent four years of my career working with kids who were in state custody.
Discussed Today:
-The John Irish/Oathkeepers Story
-Child Protection In A Voluntary Society Questions
-My Path to Working With Young People
-Residential Treatment
-Welfare Incentives
-The Horrors of CPS Politics
-Foster Care
072: Part Two - The Treatment Trough
A look at my own professional past, and at what happens on the other side of the gun.
Discussed Today:
-I gave kids drugs
-I was a 'good' employee
-I worked at a 'good' residential treatment center
-Medicaid
-The lure of bad money
-Good Intentions, in service of evil
-The Milgrim Experiment
-Voices of the institutionalized children
077: Part Three - Trapped
Why do most people turn a blind eye to the violence of the state?
Discussed Today:
-The Supplemental Security Income program
-How the poor are victimized in the name of helping the poor
-Medicaid
-Other dependency traps
Part Four coming soon.
