With August being Child Support Awareness Month and the U.S. having the seventh highest child poverty rate among economically developed countries, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently released its report on 2018’s States with the Most Underprivileged Children as well as accompanying videos.
The state of Tennessee was ranked among the 15 states with the most underprivileged children.
In order to bring awareness to the condition of underprivileged children throughout the U.S., WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 24 key measures of neediness. The data set ranges from share of children in households with below-poverty income to child food-insecurity rate to share of maltreated children.
Welfare of Children in Tennessee (1=Most; 25=Avg.):
• 12th – % of Children in Households with Below-Poverty Income
• 7th – % of Maltreated Children
• 15th – Child Food-Insecurity Rate
• 11th – Infant Mortality Rate
• 1st – % of Children in Foster Care
• 23rd – % of Children in Single-Parent Families
For the full report, visit this website.