Tag: Rhode Island KIDS COUNT
R.I. KIDS COUNT: Pandemic worsens child food insecurity rate in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island KIDS COUNT released Thursday its latest report on child hunger and nutrition in the Ocean State that found food insecurity...
R.I. KIDS COUNT: E-cigarette usage among youth higher than traditional cigarette...
PROVIDENCE – New data from Rhode Island KIDS COUNT released Friday shows that a higher rate of middle-school and high-school students are using e-cigarettes...
R.I. KIDS COUNT: 14% of R.I. children lived in poverty in...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island KIDS COUNT recently released data showing that 14% of children in the Ocean State, approximately 28,000, lived in poverty in...
HARI looks to improve maternal health for Black women across Rhode...
PROVIDENCE – After news broke last year that Black women experienced severe maternal morbidity at nearly twice the rate of white women throughout Rhode...
R.I. KIDS COUNT: Annual Factbook shows slight increase in child poverty,...
PROVIDENCE – After back-to-back years of decreases in the amount of children living in poverty, Rhode Island saw a slight increase in 2018, Rhode...
R.I. Foundation unveils 10-year plan, $1M commitment to improve public education
PROVIDENCE – Within the last two years, Rhode Island has started making the long journey to repair the public education system in the state.
In...
Editor’s Choice: Reading across Rhode Island
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Reading across Rhode Island RHODE ISLAND CENTER for the Book will kick off the 2020 statewide read, featuring “Rising: Dispatches from the New...
R.I. KIDS COUNT: State tops national average for children’s health care...
PROVIDENCE – About 97.8% of Rhode Island’s kids age 18 and under have health insurance, putting the Ocean State at number three nationwide for...
Study: R.I.’s concentrated poverty rates for minority children outpace national average
PROVIDENCE – Racial disparities for Rhode Island children living in poverty run deeper than national averages, according to a report released Tuesday by Rhode...
Expand access to early-childhood education
To the Editor:
While I was pleased to see that the number of kids in Rhode Island who are living in poverty has gone down,...