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Profiles (Showing 12 Featured Indicators of full set)

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Total Child Population (2006)	6,376,714
Child Poverty (2005)	24.7%
Children Receiving Food Stamps (2006)	24.1%
Uninsured Children (2005)	23.3%
Total Live Births (2005)	385,537
Babies Born at Low Birthweight (<2,500 grams) out of all Live Births (2005)	8.3%
Births to Women Receiving Late or No Prenatal Care - New Birth Certificate in 2005 (2005)	35%
Births to Teens Ages 13-19 out of all live births (2005)	13.5%
Pre-Kindergarten Enrollment 4-year-olds (2006)	46.9%
Economically Disadvantaged Students Passing TAKS Across Grades- Reading/ELA (2008)	80.5%
Non-Economically Disadvantaged Students Passing TAKS Across Grades- Reading/ELA (2008)	93.1%
Attrition in Public High Schools (2007)	34.0%

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Health Insurance

Uninsured Children (2005)

Texas State Data Center and the Office of the State Demographer

Number and percent of children ages 0-17 that do not have health coverage through either private (e.g., private purchase or employer-sponsored) or public (e.g., Medicaid) insurance.

Texas has had the largest percentage of uninsured children in the country for nine of the last 10 years. The Texas Finish Line Campaign works to ensure that every Texas child has access to affordable and comprehensive health care coverage. To learn more, visit www.TXFinishLine.org

Definition: Percentage of children ages 0-17 that do not have health coverage through either private (e.g., private purchase or employer-sponsored) or public (e.g., Medicaid) insurance.

Source: Texas State Data Center

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Center for Public Policy Priorities 900 Lydia St
Austin, TX 78702

512-320-0222 ext. 106
kidscount@cppp.org
http://www.cppp.org/kidscount

Frances Deviney, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate and Texas KIDS COUNT Director

The Center for Public Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy institute committed to improving public policies to better the economic and social conditions of low- and moderate-income Texans. To view the State of Texas Children 2008-09 data book, go to www.cppp.org/factbook08.

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