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Poverty

Photo of a mother and her children The Annie E. Casey Foundation's National KIDS COUNT 2003 Data Book features ten annual measures of child well-being as well as a variety of supplemental data on children and families. The theme for 2003 was The High Cost of Being Poor: Another Perspective on Helping Low-Income Families Get By and Get Ahead. Data Books and related products are complementary. Copies of the book can be viewed online at www.kidscount.org.

The broad array of data the Annie E. Casey Foundation presents each year in the KIDS COUNT Data Book is intended to illuminate the status of America's children and to assess trends in their well-being. By updating the assessment every year, KIDS COUNT provides ongoing benchmarks that can be used to see how states have advanced or regressed since 1990. States also use KIDS COUNT to compare the status of their children with those in other states across several dimensions of child well-being.

In 2002, HSPC sponsored a forum entitled, Marriage, Poverty and Child Well-Being, featuring a keynote speech by Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary of Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.