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Iowa ranks high on child well-being report, though youth death rate inched up

While children’s overall well-being continues to improve in Iowa, the state’s child and teen death rate is worse than it was in 2010, according to an Annie E. Casey Foundation report published Monday.The state still is one of the best in the nation for children. The 2019 Kids Count Data Book ranked Iowa the third-best for kids.The annual report ranks states on 16 indicators of youths’ economic well-being, education, family and community, and health.The child and teen death rate is Iowa’s only deteriorating factor in the report.

 

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