I work with a team of lawyers who try hard every day to improve the
lives of children. Through legal representation of families who care
about children, we hope to help those specific children while also
effecting systemic change.
The government today released its biannual full report
on the status of children and families in the United States. I'll mine
the data over the next few weeks in this blog. Here are some initial
highlights of indicators which increased over the past year:
- the
percentage of children served by community water systems that did not
meet all applicable standards for healthy drinking water;
- 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 birth weight infants;
- the percentage of births to unmarried women;
- the rate at which youth were perpetrators of serious violent crime;
- the number of young people finishing high school;
- the number of little children being read to.
The
report was released by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and
Family Statistics, a consortium of federal agencies that includes the
National Institute of Child Heath and Human Development, the Census
Bureau and the Administration for Children and Families.
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