NM the worst place in America to be a kid, again
For the third time in seven years, New Mexico came in dead last out of 50 states for child well-being, according to the 2019 Kids Count Data Book, released Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
The state was ranked 50th in 2013 and again last year, continuing in to this year. Louisiana was ranked 49th this year, bumping Mississippi up to 48th. New Hampshire was ranked first.
The rankings are based on 16 indicators under four major domains: Economic well-being, education, health and family and community.
Under economic well-being indicators, 27% of New Mexico children are living in poverty, a 3 percentage point improvement;
28% of kids live in homes where an unusually large portion of family income goes toward housing costs, a 4 percentage point improvement;
36% live in homes where parents lack secure employment, unchanged from the previous year;
and 10% of teens are neither working nor attending school, up 1 percentage point from the previous year.
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https://www.abqjournal.com/1329692/new-mexico-again-ranks-dead-last-in-child-well-being.html
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