Kids Count Report – New Mexico

Child report: a few improvements in NM, By Rick Nathanson, January 20, 2015, Albuquerque Journal: “It’s not all bad news, but still pretty bad. The 2014 Kids Count data book for New Mexico and produced by New Mexico Voices for Children, says the state saw improvement in just five of the 16 indicators of child well-being. Worse, child poverty—a main factor in poor outcomes— increased from 28 percent in 2012 to 31 percent in 2013, even as it decreased in most of the rest of the nation…”