- Teen birth rate has dropped dramatically in last two decades: CDC, By Dennis Thompson, August 20, 2014, Philadelphia Inquirer: “U.S. teen birth rates fell dramatically during the past two decades, plummeting 57 percent and saving taxpayers billions of dollars, a new government report shows. An estimated 4 million fewer births occurred among teenagers as a result of the decline, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…”
- Teen births: Most are in the South and Southwest, By Sharon Jayson, August 20, 2014, USA Today: “More teens are having babies in the South and Southwest while the fewest are in the Northeast, according to new state-by-state breakdowns of federal data out Wednesday. Births per 1,000 teenagers (ages 15–19) range from a low of 13.8 in New Hampshire to a high of 47.5 in New Mexico, according to the report from the National Center for Health Statistics based on 2012 data, the most recent available for the states…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty