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Where have our shoes been lately…?

49th

Florida ranks 49th
in number of uninsured children…

49th
About 19 percent, or 763,000 of our children, do not have health insurance,
versus a national average of 11 percent.

47th

Florida ranks 47th
in access to prenatal care …

47th
More than 71,000 women in Florida do not get prenatal care in the first trimester.

32nd

Florida ranks 32nd
in infant mortality…

32nd
With a rate of 7.2 infant deaths per 1,000 births…
More than 1600 infant deaths annually.

42nd

Florida ranks 42nd
in percentage of state spending on education…

42nd
As a state, Florida spends only 3.1% of its resources on education

50th

Florida ranks 50th
in per capita spending on education, but 16th in spending on corrections…

43rd

Florida ranks 43rd
in high school graduation rates…

43rd
Florida graduates only 60.8 % of high school students

48th

Florida ranks 48th
in average composite scores on the A.C.T.

43rd

Florida ranks 43rd
in children in single-parent families…

43rd
36 % of children in Florida live in single-parent families

41st

Florida ranks 41st
in child abuse deaths…

41st
Florida has 2.9 child abuse fatalities per 100,000

48th

Florida ranks 48th
in juvenile incarceration rates…

48th
Florida has a custody rate of 451.8 per 100,000 children ages 10 and up

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