DATA: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (retrieved via The Annie E. Casey Foundation) https://www.aecf.org/resources/2025-kids-count-data-book

TOOL: Mapchart https://www.mapchart.net/usa.html

Posted by snakkerdudaniel

25 comments

  2. Ha! What a hypocritical state Texas is. “For the children!” *proceeds to not give a fuck about children*

  6. There is 0 reason for any child to not have health insurance in the US.

  8. Texas is 12% from the source, data is 2023 at least for Texas

    Looked it up because I was curious and the chart didn’t say

  9. I thought children automatically qualified for Medicaid?

  10. I’m amazed Mississippi isn’t sitting right there with Texas as a top contender here.

  11. Why wouldn’t the worst two offenders be Texas and florida?

  12. This is funny, a map where California and Texas are (almost) outliers on *opposite* ends of the scale. Usually when Texas is an outlier and California isn’t, all the other southern states join Texas.

  16. I am a Canadian who works for a US company (but I work remotely from Canada). I know very well that certain states (like Texas and Florida) chose not to expand Medicaid. But my understanding is that unless a child is undocumented, there is no reason why they would be uninsured (Children’s Health Insurance Plan, basically Medicaid for children, have much higher income limits than even expanded Medicaid for adults. Even if a child has undocumented parents, if they are born in the US, they are citizens and eligible for Medicaid based on their parents’ income). Is it true that almost 10% of children currently living in Texas are undocumented (born outside the US and brought into the country as undocumented children)?

  19. Notice how it’s mostly RED STATES.

    Yet these conservatives keep electing Republicans.

    The next Democratic president should send in the national guard to these places to liberate the people from their Republicrap rulers and give them freedom and healthcare.

  20. Im proud of my state. Massachusetts may be expensive but we try to help one another. Like in our wealth tax, 1% to multi millionaires and that feeds all children at school and gave us free community college.

  21. My sibling and I were, for many years in our adolescence, children without health insurance in Texas, so this tracks. My mother is a staunch repulblican, which also tracks.

  23. The US Census does not parse out irregular immigration, and neither does this data.

    DC, VT, Massachusetts do not have the rate of undocumented children that AZ, Texas and Florida have.

    Without insurance, they still receive sliding-scale care at clinics and hospital care, and free care at schools, and can return to their country for something more extensive where they may have free care.

    The budget for medical social programs is a large percentage of a state’s budget. I think states could first consider providing dental, vision and single-payer to Americans before importing folks from the most restrictive reproductive rights countries in the world.

  24. just an fyi this is not all illegal immigration or parents that cant be bothered to get on medicaid. medicaid has income restrictions and you’d be horrified at how those restrictions are sometimes calculated in red states.

    it is possible for example, for child support you are not receiving to count as income or free housing to count as income. so e.g a single mom living rent free at their parents will have their free rent counted as income . does that make any sense? nope but the cruelty is the point. And they get away with it because people will think “how can u be poor and not have medical care? they must have a mental health issue. best blame them!”

    most people ignore stupid rules like that and skate under the radar of bs laws but some do not (e.g because a shitty ex reports them). social workers in red states will literally advise people on how to skirt the rules that the gov they work for sets. the amount of people technically receiving aid illegally is likely pretty high and they rely on it to hide the scale of how many cruel and absurd laws and regulations there are. following all the rules is a good way to get fucked over — a contributor to why e.g a % of homeless people are rule following autists.

    don’t just assume the worst of people. we are constantly bombarded with propaganda that no one goes without needs met so when we hear about e.g kids without medical care we point fingers at e.g parents instead of at the monsters in charge of the system that leaves kids without medical care

  25. Us Massholes don’t get tired of winning. Wish we could share our winning with the country but no one else wants to.

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