Foster children.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

Nearly 2,700 Alaska children were in foster care in any given month of 2015--20 percent more than the monthly average in 2014. The number of Alaska children in foster care has been climbing since 2012, but by far the biggest increase was in 2015. Last year, more children of all races, all ages, and all regions of the state were in foster care. A new paper by Diwakar...