If you follow Voices for Children in Nebraska, you undoubtedly hear a lot about the Kids Count in Nebraska Report, but you may not know much about the national report. The National Data Book takes data from all 50 states, compares states, and provides a ranking. This report can easily tell us how…...
Race for Results
Yesterday, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released the report Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for all Children. The report highlights the ongoing disparities in health, education, development, and family economics by creating an index to compare children of different races’ opportunities. 12 indicators were selected by the…...
A Changing Nebraska: By 2050, Nebraska will be more urban
In addition to our usual statewide data on the well-being of children in Nebraska, this year’s Kids Count in Nebraska Report featured a commentary on Changing Demographics in our state and the anticipated impact these changes will have on Nebraska’s kids. Today’s post in the fourth in the blog series…...
A Changing Nebraska: By 2050, Nebraska will be more diverse
This year’s Kids Count commentary featured an investigation into Nebraska demographics and how they are expected to change from now to 2050. This blog series is diving into these predictions and providing a brief overview of the commentary. The first post described what Nebraska looks like currently and how…...
A Changing Nebraska: By 2050, Nebraska will be older
Last week we kicked off a blog series on this year’s Kids Count commentary, “A Changing Nebraska: How demographic shifts impact children.” We started with a look at what Nebraska looks like right now and how Nebraska’s population is expected to grow to 2050. As the state’s population changes, trends…...
A Changing Nebraska
This week Voices for Children was proud to release the annual Kids Count in Nebraska Report. In addition to 200+ state wide indicators of child well-being and 30 county-specific indicators, we include a commentary that dives deeper into a subject impacting Nebraska’s children. This year’s commentary was on “A Changing…...
Kids Count in Nebraska Report 2013
The 21st annual Kids Count in Nebraska Report continues to highlight data in each of Voices for Children’s four issues areas – Health, Education, Safety, and Economic Stability – with over 200 indicators of how children in our state are doing and 30 county-level indicators. We have continued with…...
