Kids Count Report – Colorado

Posted on March 27, 2012 by townsend

• Annual survey says kids’ aren’t slipping into poverty so quickly, By Karen Augé, March 27, 2012, Denver Post: “The good news is that the rate at which Colorado’s kids are slipping into the ranks of the poor has slowed down.  The findings, contained in the 2012 Kids Count in Colorado report, released today by the Colorado Children’s Campaign, are cause for cautious optimism, not celebration, the campaign’s executive director Chris Watney said. ‘It’s too soon to tell what this means long-term,’ Watney said. ‘We still have to remember we’ve doubled the number of kids living in poverty’ over the past decade. ‘We need to think about how we can mitigate the impacts on those kids,’ she said. While the percentage of Colorado’s children living in poverty remains comparatively low, the rate at which childhood poverty has grown in the state has been the fastest in the nation for much of the past decade…”
• Kids’ well-being varies across counties, By Rebecca Jones, March 27, 2012, Education News Colorado: “The dramatic yearly increases in poverty that have put hundreds of thousands of young Coloradans at risk for the past decade seem finally to have slowed, but the well-being of the state’s children still depends greatly on the county in which they live, a new report shows. Children in Douglas, Broomfield and Larimer counties appear to be faring the best, according to the 2012 KIDS COUNT in Colorado report, released today. Children in Adams, Morgan and Denver counties rank the lowest statewide on 12 key indicators of overall well-being…”