Annual Report on the Well-Being of Children in the United States

September 21, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

2000 Kids Count Data Book reports on the well-being of children in the United States by analyzing 10 indicators, such as infant-mortality rates, the percentage of teenage girls who gave birth, and the number of teenagers who were not attending school and not working. The report — which is published annually and presents both national and state data — found that from 1990 to 1997 conditions measured by 6 of the 10 indicators improved. During the same period, three measures — the percentages of low-birthweight babies, the number of children living in poverty, and the number of families that are headed by single parents — showed worsening conditions. The 10th indicator — the percentage of teenagers who have dropped out of high school — remained stable. This information is also available on the foundation’s Web site at http://www.aecf.org.

Publisher: Annie E. Casey Foundation, 701 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Md. 21202; (410) 223-2890; http://www.aecf.org; 192 pages; free.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.