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What's in the Introduction: Letter from Eileen Garcia, Texans Care CEO About this Report - Methodology and more Is Texas Ready to Compete? - How a Texas child compares Going Our Own Way, In the Wrong Direction - In the company of poor states; child wellbeing by the numbers If Other States Can meet 21st Century Challenges, Why Can't Texas? - The science on early development and public policies How to Right the Course so Texas Comes First - Ensuring a voice for youth and families; Improving service coordination; and Accountability for better outcomes Download the Introduction to A Report on the Bottom Line: Conditions for Children and the Texas of Tomorrow. Source Notes for this Section Our report introduction draws on findings and data from the following sources: Steve H. Murdock, Steve White, Md. Naxrul Hoque, Beverly Pecotte, Xuihong You, and Jennifer Balkan. The New Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas. Texas A&M University Press. 2003. Institute of Medicine-National Research Council. From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah A. Phillips, Editors. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000. Every Child Matters Education Fund, "Geography Matters: Child Well-Being in the States," April, 2008. Online at http://everychildmatters.org/storage/documents/pdf/reports/geomatters.pdf Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT DATA CENTER. "Data Across States" and 2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book. http://datacenter.kidscount.org/, including: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/ConfidenceIntervals/CI_Teens_who_are_High_School_Dropouts.xls http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?loct=2&by=a&order=a&ind=100&dtm=418&ch=60&tf=35 http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?loct=2&by=a&order=a&ind=100&dtm=418&ch=a&tf=18 http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?ind=115 http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?ind=133 "To Improve Well-being for Children, State Policy Matters Most" is Texans Care for Children's policy paper on factors that determine child wellbeing in states. More information available at: http://txchildren.org/Policy-Papers#regression U.S. Census, "Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type of Coverage by State and Age for All People: 2008." http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032009/health/h05_000.htm Singh, G.K., Kogam, M.D., and vanDyck, P.C. Changes in State-Specific Childhood Obesity and Overweight Prevalence in the United States from 2003 to 2007. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Vol. 164, No. 7. May 3, 2010. U.S. Census Bureau, 2005�]2007 American Community Survey 3�]Year Estimates. Center for Public Policy Priorities' analysis of 2008 & 2009 1-year American Community Survey Data, U.S. Census Bureau. Online at http://cppp.org/research.php?aid=1017 Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts. Percent of Children (2-17) with Emotional, Developmental, or Behavioral Problems that Received Mental Health Care, 2007. U.S. Census Bureau. Data Set: 2006 Population Estimates, T6-2006: Sex By Age, Gender. Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer, 2006 Age, Sex, and Race/Ethnicity Estimates for the State of Texas and All Texas Counties. http://txsdc.utsa.edu/tpepp/txpopest.php U.S. Census Bureau reported in National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol 57, Num 7, January, 2009. Table 11: Number of births, birth rates 2006. National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol 57, Num 7, January, 2009. Percentage of Mothers with late or no prenatal care, 2006. The Tax Foundation, "State-Local Tax Burdens, All States, 2008,� Accessed August 11, 2010. Online at: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/336.html Passel, Jeffrey S. and D'Vera Cohn. 2009. A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, April.