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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 North Dakota's policy choices alongside other contextual data related to the well-being of young children.
State Highlights1
North Dakota introduced their new Early Learning Guidelines for children ages birth to three in July 2009. This resource provides information on infants' developmental benchmarks, and is intended for parents, health care providers, child care providers, early childhood educators and other professionals who work with infants and toddlers. The guidelines supplement the Early Learning Guidelines for children ages 3-5 first introduced in North Dakota in 2008. North Dakota continues to provide economic support to low-income working families. In July 2009 it increased the state's hourly minimum wage rate to meet the Federal rate of $7.25 per hour. North Dakota also exempts single parent's state income tax up to 111 percent of the federal poverty level.
- Young children (under age 6)2: 47,608
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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.