Hidalgo County 4,234 268 930 Lea County 70,359 5,593 21,216 HOW NEW MEXICO FARES: While children of color are fast becoming the Lincoln County 19,640 825 3,465 majority population in the United States, New Mexico is ahead of Los Alamos County 18,976 966 4,288 the nation in that children of color—about 76%—are already in the Luna County 24,022 1,755 6,315 majority. [...] However, with 111,000 or 24% The FPL is generally far below what a family actually needs of our children living at or below the FPL, New Mexico still ranks in order to live at a bare minimum level (e.g., have sufficient near the bottom in the nation in child poverty At the onset of the food, a safe place to live, transportation, child care, and health pandemic, a greater share of New Mexico famili. [...] • Ensure sufficient funding for expansions of child • Support policies that prioritize kinship care for foster care assistance and pre-K programs by avoiding the children; support and promote the availability of supplanting of the general fund with distributions from resources and assistance for grandparents helping to the Early Childhood Trust Fund and the new distribution raise their grandchildr. [...] Even with a in school, and growing up to be productive and contributing slightly improved rank, the rate of young children not enrolled members of society are tied to their experiences in the earliest in school in New Mexico has not changed much over the long years. [...] 48 | NEW MEXICO KIDS COUNT DATA BOOK 2022 HEALTH ABOUT THIS INDICATOR: The child and teen death rates are the HOW NEW MEXICO FARES: New Mexico’s child and teen death rate is number of deaths of children ages 1 to 14 and teens ages 15 37 deaths per 100,000 children and teens.
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