The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2019 KIDS COUNT DATA BOOK just came out. We went through the full report and picked out what is most important to the multiracial community.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® is a national and state effort to track the status of children in the United States. Since 1990, the Casey Foundation has ranked states annually on overall child well-being using an index of key indicators. The KIDS COUNT index captures what children need most to thrive, using four domains: (1) Economic Well-Being, (2) Education, (3) Health and (4) Family and Community.
Let’s look at the most relevant information about multiracial kids. Most of the time periods covered were from 2017.
ECONOMIC WELL BEING
National Average Multiracial
Children in Poverty 18% 19%
Children whose parents lack
secure employment 27% 31%
Teens not in school and not
working 7% 7%
EDUCATION
Young children ages 3 and 4
not in school 52% 51%
Fourth-graders not proficient
in reading 65% 60%
Eight-graders not proficient
in math 67% 64%
HEALTH
Low birth-weight babies 8.3% 8.9%
Children without health insurance 5.0% 4.0%
Teens who abuse alcohol or drugs 4.0% 5.0%
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
Children in single-parent families 34% 41%
Children in families where the household
head lacks a high school diploma 13% 8%
Children living in high-poverty areas 12% 10%
Teen births per 1.000 19% 29%
We strongly encourage you to look at the KIDS COUNT DATA BOOK yourselves at:
https://www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/aecf-2019kidscountdatabook-2019.pdf