The cost of protecting vulnerable children
Subtitle: understanding federal, state, and local child welfare spending
By: Rob Geen, Shelley Waters Boots, Karen C. Tumlin
Series: Occasional paper -- no. 20; Occasional paper (Assessing the New Federalism (Program)) -- no. 20
Publisher: Assessing the New Federalism, Urban Institute
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Child welfare; Finance; Government policy; States; Decentralization in government; Federal aid to child welfare
Notes: Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Stuart Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Fund for New Jersey, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online via the Urban Institute home page.