Kids Count report shows wealth and health disparities among races in Illinois

Posted on June 22, 2020
This year’s Kids Count report is only partially encouraging. (Photo courtesy: Voices for Illinois Children/Facebook)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – This year’s Kids Count report is only partially encouraging.

“What we can do as a state,” says Mitch Lifson of Voices for Illinois Children, “is work to improve the economic circumstances of that household.”
Lifson, the group’s vice president of policy, says that includes strengthening in-school health clinics, expanding child care assistance, and increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Voices is now part of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, and the Kids Count report is put out in conjunction with the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected]. 

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