67 % of Detroit Kids Live In High Poverty Because Of System Sucks

Great work, Maura Corrigan!!!  The other 33% of kids live in medium to low poverty areas of Detroit or are they in foster care?

Before people get on their economic and racist soap box and start proselytizing child abuse propaganda, let me get one thing straight.  You created this.

Maura Corrigan and her alter ego,
"The Queen of Child Welfare Fraud"

The period between 2000 and 2008 was a very dark period in Detroit.  It was during this time the groundwork for the state harvesting of children took place, right here in Wayne County.  Child Protective Services had nothing to do with protecting children.  It was all about money.

Child welfare funding is not monitored so people were creating fake reasons to put children in care with fake services.  There was so much fraud, from the administrative realm, in community, educational and social programs that the city began to crumble.  Everyone in Metropolitan Detroit was using the picture of a "poor, abused child" to ask for money.  Lincoln Hall of Justice Judges and Referees. Detroit Police Officers.  Wayne County Commissioners.  Clergy. Educators.  A Mayor and his wife. An Assistant Attorney General who would later on become Governor of Michigan.

The State of Michigan covered it up the billions of dollars of fraud being sucked out of the system of Detroit.

This was the era of fraud.  Everyone was doing it and everyone knew about it. It created jobs and stimulated the economy.  There was banking fraud, campaign fraud, election fraud, federal fraud, tax fraud...foster care and adoption fraud.  The who's who of Detroit had their hand in the cookie jar, from churches to courtrooms, from schools to hospitals, all at the expense of children.

Parents were financially extorted for money to release their child from foster care while they were collecting reimbursements through Medicaid and other Social Security programming to have the kid in foster care in the first place.

Children were being shipped out of state and warehoused in overcrowded cells, not fit for human existence, in an abandoned prison in Texas, courtesy of these political leaders.

Children were being drugged for profit, a Medicaid reimbursed cost.

Children were tortured for the sadistic pleasure called therapy, a Medicaid reimbursed cost.

With the blessing of Michigan Department of Human Services under Marianne Udow and then State Supreme Court Justice Marua Corrigan, everyone covered it up because the institution of poverty was too powerful with too much potential to maximize the revenue of the state to advance their political aspirations.

Maura was once "blue slipped" and thought she was going to sit on SCOTUS.  Udow thought she could make a lateral shift from EDS to state government. They ran public image campaigns.

In honor of the products of the "King Maker" I will be nominating Detroit community leaders and political figures who are System Sucks.

A System Suck is an individual or organization that profits from the malevolent use of children in poverty.

If you know someone you would like to nominate for this award, please submit to me or Legally Kidnapped with your reasons why the award should be given.  I will be personally delivering my awards and encourage you to do so, also.

Report: 67% of Detroit kids live in high-poverty areas"

Detroit— More children live in high-poverty neighborhoods in Detroit than in any of the nation's 50 largest cities, according to a new report.

Roughly 67 percent of Detroit children live in a neighborhood with concentrated poverty, according to the "Data Snapshot on High-Poverty Communities" from Kids Count. That's 10 percentage points more than the next worst city, Cleveland, where 57 percent of children live in high-poverty areas.

Michigan ranked 44th among the states for the number of children living in neighborhoods where 30 percent or more of the population is in poverty, defined as about $22,000 per year or less for a family of four.

Kids Count in Michigan Project Director Jane Zehnder-Merrell said children who live in neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty "struggle more with behavior and emotional problems, they are less likely to graduate and they have reduced potential to be economically successful as adults."

There were 341,000 Michigan children in high-poverty communities in 2010, about 124,000 more than at the start of the decade, or a 57 percent increase.

The report, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, found the number of children living in high-poverty neighborhoods nationwide increased from 9 percent to 11 percent over the past decade. About 8 million children across the country live in areas with a high concentration of poverty.

The number of children living in such neighborhoods increased at a faster rate in Michigan than nationwide. Statewide, Michigan's share of children living in high-poverty neighborhoods climbed from 8 percent in 2000 to 14 percent between 2006 and 2010.