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Weekly Wonk: The Quiet Constraints That Shaped Child Welfare Policy in 2025
WonkCast #8: Solving Child Welfare Policy’s Last Mile Problem
Weekly Wonk: Mapping the Foster Care Decline
WonkCast #7: Where Alex Adams is Leading ACF
Weekly Wonk: The Burden on Child Welfare’s Data Backbone
WonkCast #6: Reshaping Family Matches with Online Dating Data Science
Weekly Wonk: The Map is Not The Territory
WonkCast Episode 5: Former ACYF Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston
Weekly Wonk: The Next Big Child Welfare Window
WonkCast Episode 4: Former ACF Assistant Secretary Lynn Johnson
Weekly Wonk: How the Rise of For-Profit Mental Health is Reshaping Access for Kids
The Financing Fault Line in Kids’ Mental Health
WonkCast Episode 3: Dr. Melissa Merrick
Being an Architect in a Firefighter Era
Weekly Wonk: How Child Welfare Advocacy Fell Flat—and What Comes Next
WonkCast Episode 2: Rita Soronen
Weekly Wonk: Oh SNAP– Shutdowns & Shifting Stability
WonkCast Episode 1: Mary Bissell
Introducing WonkCast: People Power Policy.
Weekly Wonk: The Waiting is the Hardest Part- What A Grant Surge Signals
Weekly Wonk: How'd ACF Grants Fare in FY25?
Steady So Far: ACF’s Quiet Continuation of Most FY2025 Grant Funding
Weekly Wonk: Signals Amid Shutdown
Weekly Wonk: How Family First Shifts State Spending
Weekly Wonk: Why This Shutdown May Be Different
Weekly Wonk: The Hidden Fault Lines in Child Welfare Funding
Weekly Wonk- Rounding up Research That Matters
Trump Administration’s Regulatory Agenda Update
HHS Funding Markup Moves, Cuts Loom
MAHA Child Health Report Drops
The Senate Finance Committee, De-Mystified
Research Roundup from July to August 2025
Weekly Wonk- The Guardianship Gap: Federal Promise, State Reality
Key Upcoming CDC Meeting Amid Upheaval
Mind the GAP: Why States Pay for Guardianships Washington Won’t
Mississippi’s Infant Mortality & Foster Care Connection
The Medicaid Brain Trust Child Welfare Needs to Know
Weekly Wonk: Entitlement to What, Exactly?
North Carolina Cuts Medicaid Rates Across the Board
Leaked MAHA Report Signals New Psychotropic Scrutiny
How Cuts to Health Surveys Impact Data on Children and Families
Weekly Wonk: New Analyses Show How Medicaid Cuts Impact Children
Federal Grant Process Gets Centralized Political Oversight
Show Me the Money: A Look at New Trends in Child Welfare Financing
Wonk Data Drop: The OBBBA’s Impact on Children’s Coverage
Wonk Data Drop: Comparing State Medicaid Spending for Children in Foster Care
Weekly Wonk: TANF At a Crossroads
Longtime Leader of Child and Family Policy Danny Davis Retiring
A Bipartisan Housing Fix for Families?
Will Anything Ever Change for TANF?
Weekly Wonk: The Other Pediatric Mental Health Crisis
Mental Health on the Hill: Structural Barriers and Emerging Opportunities
Wonk Data Drop: The Other Pediatric Mental Health Crisis
Adams Nomination Hearing Heavy on Vaccines & Medicaid
$9B Rescission, 60 Vote Problem?
Adams Heads Toward ACF Leadership: What to Watch
Title IV-E’s Quiet Makeover: From Foster Care to Permanency
Details Emerge on FY 26 Budget Request
CBO Sees Shifting Incomes in Big Beautiful Bill’s Bottom Line
What Debt Pressure Means for Child and Family Policy
House Hearing Highlights Older Youth Policy: “Aging Out is Not a Plan”
Grants.Gov Gets Out of the DOGE-House
Early Fireworks Accompany Senate Reconciliation Votes
Policy Explainer Redux: Title IV-B
Reconciliation Becomes Law: Now What?
Expanding Exclusions to HHS Benefits
Weekly Wonk: How Much Do the Feds Fund? Less Than You Think...
Weekly Wonk: Should I PAY or Should I GO Now?
Investing in Better Child Welfare Outcomes – A Balancing Act
Reconciliation Strikes Back: Complex Budget Rules Could Cause More Cuts
The Opportunities in Title IV-B Reauthorization
Title IV-B: Alignment with Vision and Other Funds Is Key
Weekly Wonk: Cuts, Consequences, & Costs
The Hidden Costs of Implementation: What State Leaders Need to Know
Resisting Scarcity Thinking: A Call for Smarter Policy
Crunch Time: Who Gets Cut & Who Gets Counted in the One Big Beautiful Bill
First Movers Will Set Older Youth Agenda
First Movers Will Set the Terms for Future Chafee Reforms
TANF Spending on Child Welfare
Say Less: What We Mean When We Say “Accountability”
Government Shutdown Drama, Part 2
Cuts Contained Between the Lines of Reconciliation
Director’s Cut: Hard Choices Shift Impossible Costs
Reconciliation Cuts Between the Lines
Say Less: Do We Mean the Same Thing When We Say “Prevention…?”
Medicaid Cuts in Reconciliation Reality
Reconciliation Hits "The Stall"
Child Welfare Jenga: OMB Passback Style
Changes in Child Welfare Policy
ACF Staff Cuts & Child Welfare
How Do States Fare in Reconciliation?
Budget Reconciliation: State Child Welfare Impact Analysis
Budget Reconciliation & Child Welfare
20 Years of Federal Foster Care Spending, Plus FY23 State Comparisons
Child Welfare Wonk's Funding Uncertainty Vulnerability Index
FY 2025 Continuing Resolution and Child Welfare Policy
20 Years of Federal Foster Care Spending
Introducing Child Welfare Wonk's Funding Uncertainty Vulnerability Index
Shutdown Watch, Child Welfare Style
Capriciousness and Christmas Trees
Child Welfare Policy You Oughta Know
Mixtape Drops, Album Drought Drags