Updated 1/9/2013
Nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor in the workforce, according to a new KIDS COUNT policy report on youth, work and opportunity. With employment among young people at its lowest levels since the 1950s, these youth are veering toward chronic unemployment as adults and failing to gain the skills employers need in the 21st century. >>
KIDS COUNT thanks its National Outreach Partners for advancing Casey's data, publications and recommendations to strengthen children, families and communities. >>
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 23rd KIDS COUNT Data Book shows both promising progress and discouraging setbacks for the nation's children: While their academic achievement and health improved in most states, their economic well-being continued to decline. This year, the Data Book used a broader index of 16 indicators of child well-being, organized into four categories. >>
In a policy report on kinship care, KIDS COUNT explores the increased number of children living with extended family and close friends. Data show that more than 2.7 million U.S. children are raised by grandparents or other kin at some point in their lives. >>
A KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot on Children Living in America’s High-Poverty Communities highlights newly compiled data, now available on the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Nearly 8 million children under age 18 live in areas of concentrated poverty, a 25 percent increase from 2000. >>