Statistical Snapshot: Kids in Immigrant Families in America Today One in four kids in America — 18 million children total — hailed from an immigrant family in 2014. While most are U.S. citizens, several factors place them at a disadvantage as they grow into adulthood. Read More
Poverty Rate for Latino Kids Hits Pre-recession Level The prevalence of poverty among America’s Latino children has returned to a pre-recession rate — 28%. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Kweku Forstall and the Atlanta Civic Site As director of the Atlanta Civic Site team, Kweku Forstall oversees programs, investments and partnerships to increase educational and economic opportunities for children, families and communities in several southwest Atlanta neighborhoods. Read More
In 2021, Families Continue to Recover From Pandemic-era Job and Income Losses As the pandemic brought American life to a halt, the share of kids with at least one unemployed parent doubled. Explore the data details. Read More
Funders Provide $3.3 Million Boost to Summer Programs for Baltimore Youth Eleven charitable organizations, including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, have joined together to provide more than $3.3 million in support for the Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative. Read More
More Americans Earning Bachelor’s Degrees and Higher Today, more Americans are earning higher levels of education, according to new data on the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
Douglas Nelson Talks Early Education with Baltimore Leaders Former Casey President and CEO Douglas W. Nelson addressed the Baltimore Leadership in Action Program gathering where they launched their Five-Year Plan for Achieving School Readiness. Read More
Dec. 6 Webinar: Promoting Research-Practice Partnerships in Child Welfare On Dec. 6, 2018, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation will host a webinar that explores tools and resources for building effective partnerships between researchers and child welfare practitioners. Read More
Indiana Begins Journey Toward JDAI Statewide Expansion Juvenile justice stakeholders in Indiana reflect on reduced rates of youth detention in local JDAI sites and look forward to a statewide expansion of the initiative. Read More
Getting Systems in Sync: Leveraging Collective Impact Strategies to Connect People With Jobs A new Foundation paper explores the idea of using collective impact strategies to better align programs, resources and knowledge to achieve greater and better results for people striving to gain a solid foothold in our country’s workforce. Read More
