Thursday, August 18, 2011

NH Best For Kids

From Yahoo News:
"New Hampshire is best place to live for U.S. kids"

New Hampshire is the best place in America for a child to live thanks to lower rates of child poverty, according to a report released on Wednesday measuring health, education and economic security. Holding onto the lead for the ninth time in a decade, New Hampshire once again got top marks for child well-being from the Annie E. Casey Foundation annual Kids Count report. Compared to the rest of the United States, children in the Granite State were more likely to graduate from high school and least likely to have a teen pregnancy, Speer said. New Hampshire ranked among the 10 best states in all categories, including percent of low-birth weight babies, infant mortality rate, child and teen death rates, percent of teens not attending school, percent of children with no parent working and percent of children in single-parent families.

^ Go figure. I wouldn't expect NH to be the top of the list, but I guess it's a good thing that I now live here - even without kids. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/hampshire-best-place-live-u-kids-

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