Missouri’s Kids Count Ranking Improves

An annual survey of the well-being of children gives Missouri its highest ranking in the decade the study has been run, but we’re still below average. The annual Kids Count report says Missouri is 26th in the nation in child welfare, health, and education. Kids Count says we’d have a higher rating if Missouri wasn’t among the worst seven states in the country in the number of teenagers killed inaccidents, homocides and suicides.