Child Aid Hampered by Flawed Data

Despite the efforts of many charitable organizations across the country to help America’s most needy children, one of these organizations has accused the government of releasing severely flawed data that makes helping these children much more difficult. According to a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the government needs to make a variety of changes to the way it collects such data.
 
The Annie E. Casey Foundation releases an annual report called Kids Count which addresses national health and well-being of children. The 2009 Kids Count report calls the way in which the government calculates poverty as flawed, urges the …read more