WalletHub: LA 3rd Worst State For Underprivileged Children

NEW ORLEANS – WalletHub, a personal-finance website, reports a baby is born into poverty every 32 seconds and an average of 1,836 new cases of abuse and neglect are confirmed daily in the U.S.

         August is Child Support Awareness Month, and WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2016’s Best & Worst States for Underprivileged Children. The website found Louisiana ranked #49.

         WalletHub’s analysts said in order to bring awareness toward the unfortunate plight of many children across the U.S., they compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on the pervasiveness of certain “disadvantage” indicators using a data set of 16 key metrics ranging from “infant-mortality rate” to “child food-insecurity rate” to “percentage of maltreated children.”

 

         They found:

 

 Best States for Underprivileged Children:

1 – New Hampshire

2 – New Jersey

3 – Utah

4 – Minnesota

5 – Iowa

6 – Connecticut

7 – Wisconsin

8 – Nebraska

9 – Virginia

10 – North Dakota

 

Worst States for Underprivileged Children:

42 – Oklahoma

43 – Alabama

44 – Alaska

45 – Nevada

46 – Arizona

47 – Georgia

48 – New Mexico

49 – Louisiana

50 – Mississippi

51 – District of Columbia

 

         WalletHub also ranked Louisiana:

24 – % of Children Without Health Insurance

31 – % of Maltreated Children

39 – Ratio of Children in Renter-Occupied to Owner-Occupied Homes

40 – Child Food-Insecurity Rate

47 – Infant Mortality Rate

48 – % of Children in Single-Parent Families

49 – % of Children in Households with Below-Poverty Income

 

         View the full report here

 

 

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