No Shelter From the Storm: America's Uninsured Children

Among the findings:

• There were more than 9 million uninsured children in America, ages 0-18--in other words, one out of every nine children is uninsured.
• The five states with the largest number of uninsured children are California (1,368,999), Texas (1,366,638), Florida (718,603), New York (441,434), and Illinois (376,332).
• The five states with the highest rates of uninsured children are Texas (20.4%), Florida (17.0%), New Mexico (16.7%), Nevada (16.4%), and Montana (16.2%)
• The majority of uninsured children--88.3%--come from families where at least one parent works.
• Hispanic and black, non-Hispanic children are disproportionately represented among the ranks of the uninsured. More than 22% of Hispanic children and about 13% of black, non-Hispanic children are uninsured, compared to 7.5% of white, non-Hispanic children.
• More than half of all uninsured children live in two-parent families.
• In more than half of all two-parent families with uninsured children, both parents work.

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