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Article: FOSTER-CARE RATE HIGH STATE SECOND NATIONALLY FOR PERCENTAGE OF KIDS NOT LIVING WITH PARENTS.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 8, 1997
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Byline: Lynn Bartels Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
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CORRECTION PUBLISHED AUGUST 9, 1997 FOLLOWS: A story on page 6A (16A cq) Friday should have said the number of children processed through the state's foster-care system in 1995 was 13,230. The state had 986,116 residents under the age of 18 in the last census. cq designates an omission or unpublished correction.
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Colorado has the nation's second-highest percentage of kids in foster care, according to a study released Thursday.
Fourteen of every 1,000 kids in Colorado do not live with their parents, the study said.
Illinois has the most children per ...