Politics Social workers fleeing troubled foster care system Lousy pay, a toxic workplace and excessive workloads are driving away the people who serve vulnerable kids and their families. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / December 7, 2016
Politics Foster parents abandoning troubled system Washington state lost nearly one in five foster homes between 2008 and 2015 amid complaints of discord and disarray. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / October 27, 2016
Politics 4 fixes for Washington’s foster-care crisis Brandon Fogg, who has experience both as a foster child and foster parent, says foster care needs a celebrity champion. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / September 21, 2016
Politics Foster Care Crisis More than a decade after the courts ordered the state to clean up its foster care program, kids are still left rootless, vulnerable. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / September 19, 2016
Equity Helping homeless students stay in school Homeless students in the Bellevue School District have an advocate in Betty Takahashi. by Joseph Sutton-Holcomb / February 3, 2014
Politics UW students still waiting for the marijuana tooth fairy One student explores the legality - and the consequences - of lighting up, which ironically may be harder for college students to do legally than the rest of us. by Joseph Sutton-Holcomb / November 27, 2012
