JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — With August being Child Support Awareness Month and nearly 1 in 7 children in the U.S. living in poverty, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2021’s States with the Most Underprivileged Children.
Wyoming ranked a disappointing 16th overall with education and health concerns floating the metrics.
In the U.S., nearly 1 in 7 children live in poverty. And according to the Children’s Defense Fund, a child is abused or neglected every 47 seconds and the total costs of maltreatment per year reach $80.3 billion.
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 27 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 Wyoming (1=Most; 25=Avg.):
- 27th – % of Maltreated Children
- 3rd – % of Uninsured Children
- 6th – Infant Mortality Rate
- 18th – % of Children in Foster Care
- 10th – Child & Youth Homeless Rate
- 3rd – WalletHub “States that are Recovering the Quickest from COVID-19” Score
