Every year on the first Monday in April, the governor of Rhode Island, two U.S. senators, members of Congress, the attorney general and state house leaders gather for a breakfast at a hotel in Warwick – 600 attendees all told, to release the annual Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook – a compendium of information on the status and progress of the state’s children. In the audience as well are doctors, media and young people. In fact, there is a brief keynote address by a young person.