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New Leadership Institute for State-based Advocates Class Announced
The Casey Foundation recently announced the second class of its Leadership Institute for State-based Advocates.
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The Casey Foundation recently announced the second class of its Leadership Institute for State-based Advocates.
Casey President and CEO Patrick McCarthy issues a statement related to executive actions on immigration.
As an organization dedicated to improving the lives of America’s children, the Casey Foundation recognizes the fundamental importance of a child's health and health care. In a statement, President & CEO Patrick McCarthy encourages our nation's leaders to prioritize kids in the current debate.
A new infographic offers a glimpse into some of these accomplishments from the Foundation’s 2017 investments. 2017 Making a Difference offers selected data points under the Foundation’s four strategy areas: family, opportunity, community and strategies for scale.
The American Dream — the idea that anyone who is determined and works hard can get ahead — has long defined the promise of the United States. Yet the reality is that life chances for Americans are now determined to a significant degree by the wealth of our parents. The dream that hard work will lead to greater opportunity is increasingly challenging to realize.
After the Great Recession, the nation's child poverty rate increased steadily, peaking at 23% in 2011. Since then, the rate has been on a slow decline and, in 2015, reached its lowest level in five years, at which point one out of every five children lived in poverty.
In its 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation today urged policymakers and child advocates to prioritize policies that would expand opportunity for America’s 74 million children. Learn more about this report on child well-being from 1990 to 2017.
An ongoing listing of state fact and data books from the KIDS COUNT Network for 2014.
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading in New Britain, Connecticut, is coordinating services and supports for children from birth to age 8 in an effort to boost the district’s third-grade reading scores, which are the lowest in the state.
More than 240,000 children exited the foster care system in 2015, the vast majority to family, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center.
