Social Policy: Childhood Poverty

The CDF provides fact sheets and analysis of state data that reports on child poverty, hunger, welfare, early development, and more.

A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Kids Count provides data on the well-being of children in all 50 states.

Created by the advocacy group The Children's Defense Fund, this report provides a "comprehensive compilation and analysis of the most recent and reliable national and state-by-state data on population, poverty, family structure, family income, health, nutrition, early childhood development, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, and gun violence. The report provides key child data showing alarming numbers of children at risk" (Introduction).