The Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT Data Center now includes community-level data in addition to city, state, and national data. Find more than 100 indicators of child well-being, including economic status, health, safety, and risk factors. Create your own maps, graphs, and charts for use in presentations or on your own website.
Facts & Statistics
Young adults pay over $3 for every dollar borrowed. (Center for Responsible Lending)
Female-headed families have the lowest family earnings among family types. On average female-headed households earn 30 percent less than their counterparts without children (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Youth transitioning out of foster care suffer significantly higher rates of incarceration, homelessness, school drop-out and unemployment. Studies have demonstrated that among youth making the transition:
more than one in five will become homeless after age 18;
merely 58 percent will graduate high school by age 19 (compared to 87 percent nationally);
fewer than 3 percent will earn a college degree by age 25 (compared to 28 percent nationally); and
one in four will be incarcerated within two years of leaving the system (Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, http://www.jimcaseyyouth.org/need).
During the period 2009-2012, the Center for Responsible Lending projects that foreclosures will cost 92 million U.S. families some $1.9 trillion in lower home values--an average of $20,300 in lost wealth per household. (Center for Responsible Lending)
12 million Americans are caught in a cycle of 400 percent interest payday lending debt every year. (Center for Responsible Lending)
