State Data on Children MTE / 516 State Data on Children The State of Americas Children in North Carolina 2020 Factsheet addresses the status of its children. The factsheet reports on children topics such as: population, poverty, income and wealth inequality, housing and homelessness, child hunger and nutrition, health, early childhood, education, welfare, youth justice, and gun violence (The State of America's Children 2020, 2020). North Carolina reports 2,300,645 children resided in the state in 2018. The findings were surprising. The fact that surprised me the most was the number of uninsured children in 2018. So many children do not go to the dentist or doctor for wellness visits and routine checks that I assumed did not have coverage, but only five percent of the children were...