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New Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Infographic Highlights Opportunities in Kentucky

The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has a proven record of keeping people working. Claimed only by people earning income through work, the federal EITC has become the nation’s largest and most successful anti-poverty program with a thirty-year proven track record of lifting children and families out of poverty. The federal EITC alone lifted 6.1 million people, including 3.1 million children, above the poverty line in 2011. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have gone [...]

By |2015-09-28T16:01:24-04:00September 28th, 2015|Blog, Economic Security|
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Sleeping Tight? Kentucky Ranks 42nd for Child Homelessness

When we think of homelessness, we usually imagine shelters or living on the street. Yet, homelessness among children and families is much more than living in non-habitable environments. The federal McKinney-Vento Act and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have tried to capture what homelessness really means and expand the definition to include families or children fleeing domestic violence situations; families or children living with relatives or friends as temporary housing; families that [...]

By |2015-09-22T10:56:50-04:00September 22nd, 2015|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health|
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New Data Shows More than 1 in 4 KY Children Lives in Poverty

New data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that more than one in every four Kentucky children live in poverty. The American Community Survey 1-year 2014 estimate showed 26.2 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty, which was not a significant change from the 2013 estimate. However, the percent of Kentucky children living in poverty remains higher than when the recession began in 2008 (23.5 percent). There are three ways in which we [...]

By |2015-09-17T14:24:06-04:00September 17th, 2015|Blog, Economic Security|
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A New Blueprint is Here: Get involved in Blueprint 2.0

You may have heard that if something is working, you should just leave well enough alone and let things continue as they are. At some point, progress will plateau and you can figure out how to move forward. However, I would contend something different. In his book, If It Ain’t Broke…Break It!, well-known business leader and author Dr. Robert Kriegel states that when things are going well, that is just the right time to re-think how to improve [...]

By |2015-09-03T11:31:16-04:00September 3rd, 2015|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Youth Justice|
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The National KIDS COUNT Data Book: Addressing Questions to Help Us Move Forward

In its recent release of its annual “Answers Issue,” TIME asserts, “It’s an irony of the second Age of Reason that the abundance of data—the effervescence of sources and ease of delivery—makes so many more questions answerable while at the same time making it very easy to get lost.” And then the magazine’s preface teases answers for everything from the most dangerous U.S. intersection to the safest places to live, as well as revealing where [...]

By |2015-07-28T14:27:55-04:00July 28th, 2015|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Kids Count|
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A Deeper Look at the National KIDS COUNT Data Book

On Tuesday, we co-released with the Annie E. Casey Foundation the national 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book – considered by many to be the gold standard for measuring child well-being across the nation. Our press release highlights some of the Kentucky data found in the book, and you can view all of the Kentucky data, as well as information showing how each metric has changed since the start of the recession, in Kentucky’s state profile. [...]

By |2015-07-23T12:26:10-04:00July 23rd, 2015|Blog, Economic Security, Education, Health, Kids Count|
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Failure to Launch

Back in 2012, we co-released a report with the Annie E. Casey Foundation – Youth and Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adults Connections to Opportunity – which looked at the state of disconnected youth (those not enrolled in school or working, even part-time). We found that the number of disconnected youth ages 16-24 in Kentucky had jumped 49 percent from 2000 to 2011. This startling statistic had grave implications for our state’s future success – [...]

By |2015-07-14T11:22:40-04:00July 14th, 2015|Blog, Economic Security, Education, Kids Count|
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Save the Date: 12th Annual Children’s Advocacy Day on January 14, 2016

This year’s Children’s Advocacy Day at the Capitol was one of the largest yet, with over 700 children, youth, and adults attending to ask their leaders to put kids first in the legislative session. We know that Children’s Advocacy Day played an essential role in three key Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children wins for kids this year—and in numerous other wins in the previous 10 years. With your support and commitment, that momentum will continue in [...]

By |2015-06-11T12:46:24-04:00June 11th, 2015|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Youth Justice|
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Is Your Childhood Address the Key to Moving Up the Income Ladder?

Social mobility is at the heart of the American dream – the belief and hope that through hard work one can move up the economic ladder of success. We know that social mobility has remained relatively stable over the entire second half of the twentieth century, but that’s not necessarily a good thing, because it has been persistently low. For example, 70 percent of people born into the bottom fifth of the income distribution (the [...]

By |2015-06-03T11:26:30-04:00June 3rd, 2015|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education|
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How to Use the KIDS COUNT Data Center

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Data Center is the premier source of data on child and family well-being in the United States. With thousands of indicators, it's a powerful resource for child advocates, educators, parents, grant writers, journalists, policymakers, and more. The KIDS COUNT Data Center puts the power of data at its users' fingertips, equipping individuals and communities to make a difference in the lives of children. Are you new to the [...]

By |2015-05-11T09:00:17-04:00May 11th, 2015|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Kids Count, Youth Justice|
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