America's Children

From the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics:

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007

press release:

Compared to national statistics for the previous year, there has been an increase in the percentage of children living with at least one working parent and the percentage of children living in households classified as food insecure has declined. High school students were more likely to have taken advanced academic courses and the percentage of young adults who completed high school has increased. The adolescent birth rate has dropped to a record low.

Increasing were: the percentage of children served by community water systems that did not meet all applicable standards for healthy drinking water, and the percentage of children living in physically inadequate or crowded housing or housing that cost more than 30 percent of household income. The percentage of low birthweight infants also increased, as did the percentage of births to unmarried women. The rate at which youth were perpetrators of serious violent crime increased slightly.

These findings are described in detail in America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007, the U.S. government’s annual report that monitors the well-being of the Nation’s children and youth. The report is a compendium of the most recently released federal statistics on the nation’s children, issued by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. It presents a comprehensive look at critical areas of child well-being. These encompass family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

Children's Health Information

New Resource for Children’s Health Information

Statehealthfacts.org

Includes a children’s health section that offers customized fact sheets for each state, a directory of all children’s health topics on the site, and the latest children’s health research from KCMU and headlines from kaisernetwork.org.
Source: StateHealthFacts.org (Kaiser Family Foundation)

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Number of Medicare Advantage Contracts
2007+ Total Medicare Advantage Enrollment
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