DFPS caseworkers are chronically underpaid, routinely overloaded, and among the highest-turnover state employees in Texas. The agency has struggled for years to keep enough workers on staff to handle its caseloads. The state legislature has held hearings on it. Children have died because of it.<\/p>\n
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