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State policies that promote health, education, and strong families can help the early development and school readiness of America's youngest citizens. This profile highlights Florida's policy choices alongside other contextual data related to the well-being of young children.
State Highlights1
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds will be used to streamline eligibility, enrollment, and re-enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP in an effort to cover up to 30,000 additional uninsured children. An additional $50 million ARRA funds will be used to expand available subsidized child care slots and reduce the waiting list. Florida also increased funding for its pre-kindergarten by 4 percent ($13.7 million), for a total of $367.2 million available for programs; this amount also includes funding received through ARRA.
- Young children (under age 6)2: 1,290,592
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Data Notes and Sources
Last Updated: December 4, 2009
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- State Highlights are drawn from states' government and organization websites and reports. For more information, contact ITO@nccp.org.
- State data were calculated from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (the March supplement) of the Current Population Survey from 2007, 2008, and 2009, representing information from calendar years 2006, 2007, and 2008. NCCP averaged three years of data because of small sample sizes in less populated states. The national data were calculated from the 2009 data, representing information from the previous calendar year.
- National and state data were calculated from the 2008 American Community Survey.