New state rankings on how America’s children are faring

[Skidmore]

Interesting to see which states are at the bottom of the list in light of current healthcare policies.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/07/22/new-state-rankings-on-how-americas-children-are-faring/

By Valerie Strauss July 22
A new report on how America’s children are faring, just released by the nonprofit Annie E. Casey Foundation, found that Massachusetts is doing the best job and Mississippi the worst in four areas: economic well-being, education, health and family/community indicators.

The KidsCount 2014 Data Book finds that in 2012, 23 percent of U.S. children were living below the official poverty line and many others live just above it, a jump from 2005 when 19 percent were living below the poverty line.

It is the 25th such annual report released by the foundation, which collects and analyzes a mountain of data about the well-being of America’s children and issues a report with state rankings and a great deal of other information, which you can see in full here. Using the latest available data, it looks at the four areas to reach conclusions about how well children are doing in the United States....

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[Historic NY]

1. Nice to see mississippi moved up 2 clicks in 2 out of 5 categories...

Meanwhile whats going on in Nevada & Montana?

[yeoman6987]

2. I find it odd with Nevada and California

I thought both states were doing well.

[libodem]

3. Important stuff here

Bookmarked.