NUMBER: 42

That’s South Carolina’s low rank out of 50 states in an annual survey of child welfare, according to the Kids Count Data Book offered by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The state has never ranked higher than 42, but tied its highest score this year due to improvements on child health outcomes, such as more kids having health insurance, a lower percentage of low-weight babies and a teen birth rate that fell from 51 per 1,000 births in 2008 to 32 per 1,000 in 2013. Read South Carolina’s profile.