in foster care are also disproportionately vulnerable to sexual abuse, andLGBTQ youth of foster care without the state finding them a family to live with. Foster care in the United States is made up of a vast network of federal, state, and county child welfare systems, which are plagued with problems, including a lack of funding and resources, a shortage of foster parents, and accusations of race and gender discrimination.The lack of sufficientfunding and supporthas led toalarming statistics Along with the Instagram post, there was, of course, the lyric video that Trace talked about posted to YouTube. In it he sings, "Brenda, I should have never left the west coast / I lost you on the metro / smoke and mirrors got me losing my mind."Instagram contentView on InstagramContentView Iframe URL Currently, a nearly 2,000-foot-long floater, essentially a floating trash collector, has made its way to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to take a stab at tackling the existing problem — it’s the brainchild of 24-year-old Boyan Slat, who conceived the idea for his contraption in 2013 and startedthe Ocean CleanupSlat’s device, ahigh-density polyethylene pipe