State of America's Children:yearbk.2000

The flagship publication of the Children's Defense Fund gives annually revised, comprehensive, and state-by-state data on family income, child health, children and families in crisis, child care and early childhood development, child nutrition, education adolescent pregnancy, and violence. It features a call to action by Marian Wright Edelman, plus invaluable information on natinal trends in child poverty, births to teen, mothers in the workforce, and youth unemployment. Also here are dozens of authoritative tables and charts on maternal and infant health indicators by race of mother, child health coverages (best and worst states), children under age eighteen in foster care, and much more.Children's Defense Fund Staff is the author of 'State of America's Children:yearbk.2000' with ISBN 9780807042137 and ISBN 0807042137.