We cut child poverty to historic lows

Child poverty's historic drop and rebound, explained in one chart - Vox

In 2021, the child poverty rate — as measured by the supplemental poverty measure that incorporates the value of government benefits — took a ...

What Could 2023 Child Poverty Rates Have Looked Like Had an ...

In September 2024, the Census Bureau released data on poverty in 2023. In 2021, the child poverty rate fell to a historic low of 5.2%, due ...

Record Rise in Poverty Highlights Importance of Child Tax Credit

Policy choices that reduce poverty — or allow poverty to surge — matter. When low-income families receive more income assistance, babies are ...

Government's Pandemic Response Turned a Would-Be Poverty ...

Economic security programs reduced differences in child poverty rates by race and ethnicity by over half in 2020 and by over two-thirds in 2021.

Children Left Behind by the Child Tax Credit in 2022

In 2021, the child poverty rate fell to a historic low of 5.2%, largely due to the American Rescue Plan's expansion of the federal Child Tax ...

Child poverty increases sharply following expiration of expanded tax ...

... child tax credit led to a historic 46 percent decline in the child poverty rate ... historic lows. Stephanie Sy takes a look at new census data ...

Issue Brief: U.S. Child Poverty in 2023 | First Focus on Children

We are failing our nation's children in this regard. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that nearly 14% of children (nearly 10 million) in the ...

Statement from President Joe Biden on Census Income, Poverty ...

We cut child poverty by nearly half to record lows for all children in this nation largely by expanding the Child Tax Credit.

2023 Poverty Rate Points to Policy Gaps Amidst Economic Strength

According to the 2023 Supplemental Poverty Measure, many U.S. children continue to live in poverty: the rate climbed slightly from 2022 to a ...

Nearly 1 Million More Children Were in Poverty in 2023 Than 2022 ...

[1] This corresponds to 13.7 percent of all children under age 18. Despite a growing economy, these numbers are the highest they have been since ...

Child poverty skyrockets a year after record low, Census data shows

Experts point to the expanded child tax credit as key to this poverty yo-yo. When it ended, many lower-income families struggled to pay ...

How the U.S. Can Return to Its Record-Low Child Poverty Rates

It contributed massively to the record-low child poverty rate in 2021, cutting child poverty by a third ... As I document in my new book, Poverty ...

Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty - Child Trends

In 1993, the social safety net (within which we include federal tax and transfer programs, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, or EITC) cut ...

The Anti-Poverty and Income-Boosting Impacts of the Enhanced CTC

The CEA's analysis implies that extending the expanded CTC would reduce the child poverty rate by an additional 4–5 percentage points each year, ...

Child Tax Credit expansions were instrumental in reducing poverty ...

This new historic low is largely thanks to the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC), a key component of the 2021 American Rescue Plan (ARP) that has ...

Child Poverty Fell to Record Low 5.2% in 2021 - U.S. Census Bureau

Child poverty, calculated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), fell to its lowest recorded level in 2021, declining 46% from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021.

Child poverty drops to historic lows, Census reports

As Congress moves toward the end of its session, we urge lawmakers to reinstate meaningful improvements to the Child Tax Credit, improvements ...

Child Poverty in America: 2024 Facts & Statistics | United Way NCA

The COVID-19 pandemic and record inflation have exacerbated these disparities. The child tax credit, which was introduced in 2021, helped to reduce child ...

The United States' Record-Low Child Poverty Rate in International ...

We demonstrate that whether using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), relative poverty measures, or an absolute poverty measure, the U.S. ...

Biden says expanded child tax credit sharply cut poverty for Black ...

stated on February 27, 2023 in An address at the White House: “We cut Black child poverty in half in 2021 because of the child tax credit.”.