Why is our state government willing to hurt children? For many, the Pennsylvania state budget impasse is an abstraction which resides in news reports. For me, it is a daily Solomonic exercise in whether to deny care to vulnerable children and an existential threat to the business we’ve built over the past 26 years.

Here’s a report from someone on the ground.

On the ground

I’m the director of JusticeWorks Youth Care, Pittsburgh-based social service company providing in-home services to neglected and abused children in the child welfare system. We also serve delinquent youth in the community, and to behaviorally difficult children in public schools.

Our customers are county agencies responsible for these legally mandated services. We employ about 500 dedicated staff and serve thousands o

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