Kids Count in Michigan

Infant death rates in Michigan are down overall. But race and income still seem to make a difference in whether children live past their first…

More Michigan mothers are smoking while pregnant. A new report from the Michigan League for Public Policy shows between 2008 and 2014 the rate of…

State Child Poverty Up, Teen Deaths Down The annual Kids Count survey finds child poverty rates rising during 25 years of data-gathering while fewer teens…

A new national report says only one in three children who started school in the late 1990's had the necessary cognitive skills by the third grade to go on…