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cjrl-8753	Albert, Ashley; Bain, Tiheba; Brico, Elizabeth; Dinkins, Bishop Marcia; Houston, Kelis; McMillan, Joyce; Quarles, Vonya; Sangoi, Lisa; Cloud, Erin Miles; Marx-Arpadi, Adina	Ending the Family Death Penalty and Building a World We Deserve	2021	34	.pdf	application/pdf	12866	608	58	We write this and continue to be stunned by the amount of money this law has funneled into family regulation systems across the country. In 2017 alone, states were projected to receive $2.658 billion in federal Title IV-E adoption assistance budget to fund other families to care for our children.23 From 1999 to 2014 the federal government projected that it gave states $423,754,125 as an award for dissolving our families and adopting out our children.24 Over the course of 20 years, the federal government (not including state governments) has spent tens of billions of dollars on paying other families to permanently raise our children and the children of the families 21 U.S. GOV'T ACCOUNTABILITY OFF., GAO-03-626T, FOSTER CARE: STATES FOCUSING ON FINDING PERMANENT HOMES FOR CHILDREN, BUT LONG- STANDING BARRIERS REMAIN 2 (2003).	cache/cjrl-8753.pdf	txt/cjrl-8753.txt