Reference: The 2022 KIDS COUNT Data Book (2022 State Trends in Child Well-Being) Published by Annie E. Casey Foundation Published Online

From the Publication Page

Chil­dren in Amer­i­ca are inie E. Casey Foun­da­tion with 50-state data on child well-being. The annu­al report focus­es this year on youth men­tal health, con­cur­ring with a recent assess­ment by the U.S. sur­geon gen­er­al that cur­rent con­di­tions amount to a youth men­tal health pan­dem­ic. The report sheds light on the health, eco­nom­ic and oth­er chal­lenges affect­ing Amer­i­can children.

The Data Book reports that chil­dren across Amer­i­ca, and in more than 40 states and the Dis­trict of Colum­bia, were more like­ly to encounter anx­i­ety or depres­sion dur­ing the first year of the COVID-19 cri­sis than pre­vi­ous­ly, with the nation­al fig­ure jump­ing 26%, from 9.4% among chil­dren ages 3–17 (5.8 mil­lion kids) to 11.8% (7.3 mil­lion) between 2016 and 2020, the year COVID-19 swept across the Unit­ed States. This increase rep­re­sents 1.5 mil­lion more chil­dren who are strug­gling to make it through the day.

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Each year, the Data Book presents nation­al and state data from 16 indi­ca­tors in four domains — eco­nom­ic well-being, edu­ca­tion, health, and fam­i­ly and com­mu­ni­ty fac­tors — and ranks the states accord­ing to how chil­dren are far­ing over­all. The data in this year’s report are a mix of pre-pan­dem­ic and more recent fig­ures and are the lat­est avail­able. Mass­a­chu­setts, New Hamp­shire and Min­neso­ta rank first, sec­ond and third in over­all well-being in the 2022 Data Book; Mis­sis­sip­pi, Louisiana and New Mex­i­co ranked 48^th, 49^th and 50^th.

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