Contains lots of otherwise obscure, private-source data on children, crime, delinquency, health care, nursing homes, poverty, and social welfare. Formerly entitled, Face of the Nation . Annual yearbook from the Children's Defense Fund . Provides text, data, and comparisons of the health and welfare of US children in each state. Individual chapters focus on family income, child health, child care, education, children and families in crisis, and juvenile justice.
Text includes sidebars with quick facts and figures.
Discusses the state of commercial and passenger travel, the impact of transportation on the economy, and the relation of the transportation system to the environment. Also discusses the state of transportation statistics. Naturally, data and tables are available for many different variables. Brief overview of transportation data for the years 1980 and 1994. Extremely detailed, if not tedious, statistics on birth, death, and marriage.