- State youth show gains in well-being, By Markeshia Ricks, September 28, 2010, Montgomery Advertiser: “Alabama’s children are showing improvements in their safety, health and education, but the annual report on their well-being shows there is still a huge amount of work to be done. The 2010 Alabama Kids Count Data Book, which VOICES for Alabama’s Children released today, examines data on issues that impact child well-being such as safety, poverty, teen birth rate and preventable teen death — and most of this data did not reflect well on the Montgomery area…”
- Survey: Child well-being improves for state, county, By Dana Beyerle, September 27, 2010, Gadsden Times: “Some but not all of the child well-being indicators for Alabama and Etowah County are better than they have been in recent years, the latest Kids Count survey released by Voices for Alabama Children shows. ‘We are making progress in child well-being,’ Linda Tilly, executive director of Voices for Alabama’s Children, said Monday. ‘We’d like to see more, but sometimes economic realities prevent it.’ The 2010 Alabama Kids Count survey, online at www.alavoices.org, provides state and county data that measure child well-being over time. They include school participation and family health issues…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty