The ebb and flow of foster care numbers is driven by everything from widely publicized incidents of child fatalities, like the Elisa Izquierdo case in New York City, which significantly drove up abuse reports, to crack cocaine addiction, which drove up foster care numbers to record levels in the early 1990's.
Five years ago, Los Angeles County child welfare officials teamed up with criminal justice experts in the hope of stemming the flow of foster kids into the juvenile justice system.
The great paradox of the sell-off, then, is that the factors that were supposed to increase the flow of information to investors, foster long-term thinking, and encourage contrarian positions did exactly the opposite.
The flow of money to private foster care — now about $400 million a year — introduced a powerful incentive for some to spend as little as possible and pack homes with as many children as they could.
Chapter 12 shifts focus to the broader system: the implications of human population growth and of anti-poaching enforcement on the one hand, and on the other, of wildlife management areas [WMAs] intended to foster a flow of economic benefits from conservation and tourism to local people.
According to the code of conduct, members should "protect and advance the free flow of accurate and truthful information; foster informed decision-making through open communication... and work to strengthen the public's trust in the profession".
Clinical and translational medicine plays a unique and critical role in fostering the flow of bidirectional information between basic and clinical scientists, optimizing new biotechnologies, improving clinical application of new therapeutic concepts, and ultimately improving the quality of life for patients.
The worldwide downturn gives some ammunition to critics of global integration, many of whom have argued that the trend toward corporate expansion and unfettered flow of goods and money will not foster sustained prosperity.
Lawrence F. Katz, a liberal professor of economics at Harvard who is among those who say that immigration can push down pay for workers directly competing with new immigrants, nevertheless supports the argument that a freer flow of people from other nations would foster more growth.
Determined to shore up defenses in a financial system that now underlies the world's second-largest economy after the United States, China's top leaders are slowing the flow of the fuel that has helped foster many of the risks: credit from state-run banks.
To grow beyond the frontier of imitation, an economy must foster a constant flow of economic experiments.
