Face the Facts

“Is Florida really the worst in terms of child well being?”

Florida ranks 31st in Children's Health by the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2019 Kids Count Survey.
About 8 percent, or 343,000 of our children, do not have health insurance, versus a national average of 6 percent.
Over 19,000 babies are born in Florida each year weighing under 5 ½ pounds.
More than 17,674 females, ages 15-19 give birth annually in Florida.
Over 12 million children in Florida live in poverty.

Florida ranks 12th in Education by the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2019 Kids Count Survey.
About 50%, or 223,000 young children, in Florida are not in school.
Over 23% of Florida's high school students do not graduate on time.
Florida ranks 45th in state spending on education as a percentage of total resources.
As a state, Florida spends only 2.7% of its resources on education.
Only 77.9 percent of Florida’s public high school students graduate with a diploma.

Florida ranks 44th in Children & Family Economic Well-Being by the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2016 Kids Count Survey.
About 24% of Florida's children live at or below poverty.
Over 40% of children in Florida live in a single-parent household, accounting for over 1,475,000 children.

1 Annie E Casey Foundation (2016). Kids count data book: state trends in wellbeing. Retrieved from http://www.aecf.org/resources/2019-kids-count-data-book/#state-rankings

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