The United States' child poverty rate more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, according to datareleased by the Census Bureau earlier this month. The primary driver of the jump from 4.6% to 12.4%, a surge affecting millions of children, was the end of the child tax credit expansion at the end of 2021.
September 26, 2023 at 4:02 pm EDTreleased by the Census Bureau
The data from the Census Bureau follows previous studies showing massive spikes, including a Columbia University report that showedin the first month after the enhanced tax credit program ended. In my book, I traced the lives of three Puerto Rican children who grew up in the poorest neighborhood of Philadelphia — Kensington — and the toll that child poverty has on their lives is just astonishing. They have to endure evictions and housing insecurity, they run out of food by the end of the month and so they are hungry. They are living in neighborhoods that are afflicted by gun violence and other forms of violence.
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