Child advocates: State must do better for kids
Jaime Malarkey, The Examiner 2007-07-25
BALTIMORE –
In the same year a Baltimore teenager died in a state-run residential detention center and a Prince George’s county youth died after a tooth infection spread to his brain, child advocates today pressured Maryland lawmakers to improve problems affecting kids that, according to a new report, appear to be worsening.
Maryland’s rank nationally fell from 23rd to 24th in an annual child wellness report released today from the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, which analyzed factors including infant mortality, teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates.
Using the foundation’s indicators and some of their own, local advocates said the ranking should be much better considering Maryland is the second wealthiest state in the nation.
They said the gap is the third largest in the country.
(Click here to read the Annie E. Casey Foundations' KIDS COUNT 2007 Data Book.)
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