The lack of those basic things is what child poverty in America looked like in 2022. It looked like an 11-year-old girl who needed to go to a lice clinic after home treatments didn’t work.

America's poverty rate soared last year. ... The child poverty rate, as measured by the SPM, jumped from a historic low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022, the Census said.

The child poverty rate has hit a five-year high in America as families continue to deal with high prices for groceries and housing.. That rate surged from 12.4 percent in 2022 to 13.7 percent in ...

It showed that child poverty more than doubled between 2021 and 2022. That’s 5.1 million children pushed into misery, for it really is miserable to be poor in America. And the thing is, this ...

America can take care of our poorest children. We just don’t want to. The spike in childhood poverty shows that while America will rise to meet a crisis, we just as reliably create another one ...

America has gone through many ups and downs since the civil rights era, but one thing has remained remarkably constant: In 1970, 12.6 percent of Americans were considered poor; in 2023, that ...

Child poverty more than doubled last year. It doesn’t have to be this way. ... America Pulled Children Out of Poverty. Now It’s Set to Reverse Course With a Vengeance. Sept. 25, 2023.

If the Census Bureau had included the missing $1.9 trillion in transfer payments, child poverty would have been only 3.2% in 2017, compared with the official rate of 17.5%.

Luke Shaefer, a poverty researcher and co-author of the book "Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America," said the U.S. has failed to reduce child poverty over the last two ...

Specific to childhood poverty, the expanded eligibility and total value of child tax credits that were implemented via the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act lifted 2.9 million children out of poverty.

P overty in America has, for decades, been framed as an issue of “them” rather than “us.” The poverty stricken are routinely thought to reside far outside of mainstream America. Central to ...

Refundable tax credits like payments from the expanded child tax credit helped keep millions of Americans out of poverty in 2021. The end of many of those programs that year has led to a big ...