Kids Count Report – New Jersey

Newark’s kids’ conditions improving, but they still lag behind rest of NJ: report, By Seth Augenstein, February 6, 2014, Star-Ledger: “The good news: Newark kids are catching up to their peers across New Jersey in terms of poverty, health and education issues, according to statistics released today. The bad news: Newark kids still lag behind other New Jersey kids, according to those very same statistics. The annual ‘Kids Count’ report issued by the Advocates for Children of New Jersey today shows that the number of children living in poverty has decreased over the last decade, numbers of foster care placements and juvenile arrests have dramatically fallen, and college enrollment rates are up. But it also shows that Newark kids have vast room for improvement, compared to state averages, the authors said…”