The Annie E. Casey Foundation released its 2020 Kids Count Data Book, with state and national indicators of child well-being. The new data shows encouraging, improving trends on the national scale.

However, the Casey Foundation notes that data was collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that dramatic shifts in data and rankings will likely be reflected in future research. The foundation is planning to collect data on the impact of COVID-19 on children but shared that it wanted to release this information so it would be available for policymakers, researchers and advocates now.

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