2021 Kids Count Data Book

Part of the Resource Collection: Child Welfare and Early Childhood: Cross-Systems Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families Website

By: Annie E. Casey Foundation June 21, 2021

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The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before - and during - the coronavirus pandemic.

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The 2022 Increase in Child Poverty is Especially Detrimental for Young Children

Blog September 25, 2023

This blog explains the impact of the policy choice to not renew the Child Tax Credit on the child poverty rate.

Home-Based Child Care: Embedding Wellness in HBCC Systems through Strengthening HBCC Networks: An Evidence-Based Framework for High Quality (Benchmarks)

Archived Webinar September 21, 2023

This recording and slide deck are from the September 19, 2023 Home-Based Child Care Webinar.

Workforce Compensation

Report August 29, 2023

A robust early childhood care and education workforce is at the heart of any solution to stabilize the child care sector, and adequate compensation is pivotal to that end. That reality comes through in the PDG B-5 grant applications; many states demonstrate a keen focus on supporting workforce compensation. This brief explores and synthesizes the strategies to increase compensation that states proposed in their PDG B-5 grant applications.