Keeping Track
New “Community Risk Ranking” Shows Stark Inequality Among New York City’s Children
Ahead of Mayor de Blasio’s State of the City Address, Citizens’ Committee for Children (CCC), one of the city’s oldest children’s advocacy organizations, has released a new Community Risk Ranking that reveals a stark disparity in child well-being acros …
Introducing CCC’s Community Risk Ranking
Today we are releasing our new child well-being index, CCC’s Community Risk Ranking: Measuring Child Well-being in New York City’s 59 Community Districts. Taking into account Keeping Track data on economic security, health, housing, education, and yout …
CCC Community Risk Ranking: Child Well-being in New York City’s 59 Community Districts
CCC’s Community Risk Ranking combines data from across multiple dimensions of child well-being – economic security, health, housing, education, issues specific to teens and youths, and family and community – to provide a better understanding of where r …
Breaking Down Child Health Disparities in NYC
A child’s long-term health and well-being is shaped by the conditions in which he or she is born, grows, lives, works, and ages. These circumstances are greatly influenced by access to resources and supports that help families to meet the individual ne …
Child Health Disparities in New York City
CCC’s Presentation, Child Health Disparities in New York City, is an overview of the many indicators – including education, environment, nutrition, and cultural capital – that connect to health outcomes of children. A child’s long-term health and well- …
Why We’re Advocating for Affordable Housing and Increased Wages
Since 2008, median rents rose 8.8 percent from just over $1,000 to nearly $1,100 in 2012. At the same time, the average household in 2012 made about $4,000 or 7.1 percent less than the average household in 2008. A recent USA Today article highlighted t …
