BOSTON – Massachusetts and New Hampshire are first and second in an annual rating of how effectively children are doing.
“This 12 months, New England states maintain the highest two spots for general baby well-being,” the Annie E. Casey Basis says.
The muse’s “Children Rely” report finds that there’s an “unfolding psychological well being disaster” affecting America’s youth.
“From misplaced playtime for youthful kids to canceled proms, graduations and summer season jobs for teenagers, the world merely stopped being what it had been for thousands and thousands of younger folks,” the report said.
Kids have been extra prone to be depressed or anxious within the first 12 months of COVID than earlier than, the information confirmed.
On the constructive facet, the report says federal investments at the beginning of the pandemic helped to enhance financial well-being indicators for teenagers nationwide, and fewer kids live in poverty.
Massachusetts ranked first within the well being class, second in schooling, tenth in household and neighborhood, and fifteenth for financial well-being. New Hampshire was second in each well being and household/neighborhood, and fourth for financial well-being and schooling.
Minnesota, Utah and Vermont rounded out the High 5 within the general rankings. Connecticut was seventh, Maine twelfth and Rhode Island twenty fifth. New Mexico got here in final.
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