South Dakota ranks in the top 10 of states that have done the best job of protecting children amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Tuesday by Save the Children.
The report analyzed four months of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, which was launched last year to study the social and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization focused on responses from households with children under the age of 18 and then ranked states based on three factors studied in the bureau’s survey: “food scarcity, lack of access to tools for remote learning and difficulty paying for household items.”
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