Rhode Island
Rhode Island Kids Count notes population decline, mental health issues in 2022 Factbook
Rhode Island Children Rely launched its 2022 Annual Factbook on Monday. This 12 months’s annual name to motion highlights a number of issues. Considered one of them is the state’s declining inhabitants. “We’ve had a decline in baby inhabitants. It decreased from 247,000 again in 2000 to about 210,000 throughout the 2020 Census,” stated Rhode Island Children Rely Govt Director Elizabeth Burke-Bryant. Births in 2020 had been on the lowest level in a century and solely barely up in 2021.