Proportion of American Parents Without Health Insurance Hits Five-Year Low In 2015, 12% of all parents — 7 million Americans — lacked health insurance. This rate has steadily improved since 2010, when 18% of all parents lacked health insurance. The Affordable Care Act, signed in 2010, is attributed to the increased rates of parental insurance coverage. Read More
New Report: Young People in Foster Care on How States Can Remove Barriers to Normalcy In a Jim Casey Initiative report, young people from foster care provide recommendations for state child welfare agencies and policymakers that should help these youth achieve normalcy while in foster care. Read More
Connecticut City Launches Local Campaign for Grade-Level Reading The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading in New Britain, Connecticut, is coordinating services and supports for children from birth to age 8 in an effort to boost the district’s third-grade reading scores, which are the lowest in the state. Read More
Youth Grantmakers Select Baltimore Funding Recipients A Casey-funded effort selects young people to serve as grantmakers. Learn about who they supported this year. Read More
How the KIDS COUNT Data Center Can Help a Journalist Learn now a journalist can analyze data, connect with others and share resources on child and family well-being through the KIDS COUNT Data Center. Read More
That Scary Infant Mortality Rate? Here's What You Need to Know The 2015 infant mortality rate for babies born to Black mothers is alarmingly high. Read the specifics behind this statistic. Read More
Five Questions with Casey: Tracey Feild on the Need to Reform Child Welfare Funding Tracey Feild, director and manager of the Child Welfare Strategy Group, discusses child welfare funding reform. Read More
Evidence2Success 2017 Community Selection Process The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently hosted a webinar for communities that are interested in implementing Evidence2Success, a framework that brings public system and resident leaders together to improve child well-being. 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
Casey Foundation Grantee Featured in Policy & Practice Case Commons earns high praise for supporting technology-smart casework in Policy & Practice magazine, a leading authority on public human services produced by the American Public Human Services Association. Read More