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The State of Things

Officials Declare Foster Care ‘Crisis’ in North Carolina

WUNC | By Laura Pellicer,
Frank Stasio
Published January 12, 2017 at 12:31 PM EST
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Over the past five years, the rate of North Carolinian children in foster care has increased by 25 percent. Foster care organizations say they are struggling to find enough homes in which to place the kids.

News & Observer Reporter Madison Iszler speaks with host Frank Stasio about the main factors that have led to this increase of children in foster care, including the effects of North Carolina’s opioid crisis.

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Laura Pellicer
Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with WUNC’s small but intrepid digital news team.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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