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People often ask writers, “How do you get better?” expecting a list of writing exercises, craft books, or productivity hacks. Those could help, but the simplest and most transformative answer has always been this: writers gotta read.

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Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families

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“Child protection is not just one decision; your work is a series of decisions throughout the life of a case.”
― Jessica Pryce, Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families

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“The real issue remains that the child welfare system is funded at over twelve billion annually,2 and CPS decided to punish Jatoia for not paying child support to a system that took her children.”
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“To a CPS investigator, the mother might seem like she’s not prioritizing her children’s safety, but in reality she’s trying to survive from moment to moment.”
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