The well-being of American children improved only modestly during the most prosperous years of this decade, a new report from the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation finds.

According to the twentieth-annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, six of ten key indicators showed slight improvements since 2000, including infant mortality and high school dropout rates. However, the improvements are not as robust as improvements in the indicators were at the end of the 1990s. For example, the poverty rate for children remains between 17 percent and 19 percent so far this decade, which means that 900,000 more children were living in poverty nationally in 2007 than in 2000, said Laura Beavers, coordinator of the national KIDS COUNT project.

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