Updated 2/27/2013
In its latest KIDS COUNT data snapshot on youth incarceration, the Casey Foundation finds that the rate of young people locked up because they were in trouble with the law dropped more than 40 percent over a 15-year period, with no decrease in public safety. The publication also recommends ways to continue reducing reliance on incarceration and improve the odds for young people involved in the justice system. >>
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. >>