PBS News Hour - One former foster child's simple approach to fixing a broken system

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December 30, 2021

There are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States. While the pandemic has made life more difficult for these vulnerable kids, many say the foster care system itself has been putting them at risk for decades. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat down with Sixto Cancel, CEO & Founder of Think of Us, a former foster child who is now on a mission to fix the system by helping families stay together.