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Federal government issues new guidance on charging parents for children's foster care

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When state officials put children in foster care, they often charge the parents for the cost. Now the federal government, responding to an NPR investigation, has changed the rules.

NPR investigative correspondent Joseph Shapiro reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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