Montgomery, AL – Alabama has slid down a notch on the 2009 Kids Count survey that tracks the well being of children in each state by using a variety of benchmarks.
The state is ranked 48th in the study released Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report says Alabama has shown improvements in four of 10 indicators: infant mortality, teen birth rate, high school dropout rate and the percent of teens who aren't in school and are not working.
But the state did worse in the percent of low-birth weight babies, teen death rate, percent of kids in single-parent families, child poverty, and the percent of children in families with parents who aren't employed full-time.
The child death rate in Alabama stayed the same.
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