- Vermont — +46.4 percent
- Utah — +37.9 percent
- Florida — +22.5 percent
- Nebraska — +20.7 percent
- New Jersey — +10.1 percent
- North Dakota — +10.1 percent
- Montana — +6.3 percent
- Virginia — +6.3 percent
- Minnesota — +6.2 percent
- Colorado — +5.1 percent
Here is a list of the 10 states with the lowest percentage change in the rate of uninsured children (0-18 years-old) in 2006-2007 compared to the average in 1994/95/96:
- Maine — -57.8 percent
- California — -52.7 percent
- Iowa — -49.1 percent
- District of Columbia — -46.9 percent
- Alabama — -44.4 percent
- Massachusetts — -41.9 percent
- Tennessee — -39.6 percent
- Oklahoma — -36.9 percent
- Connecticut — -33.3 percent
- Kentucky — -31.9 percent
Source: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundations’ At the Brink: Trends in America’s Uninsured report (pdf).
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