Children’s Defense Fund2018-04-032018-04-032018Children’s Defense Fund (2018). The State of America's children 2017. Washington, DC: Author.http://www.childrensdefense.org/library/state-of-americas-children/2017-soac.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3774The State of America’s Children® 2017 summarizes the status of America’s children in 11 areas: child population, child poverty, income and wealth inequality, housing and homelessness, child hunger and nutrition, child health, early childhood, education, child welfare, juvenile justice and gun violence. For each area, we compiled the most recent, available national and state-level data. This report includes our key findings as well as data tables, which are useful for comparing different statesen-USchild well-beingUnited StatesstatisticsDataset