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Child Poverty Rate Doubles as Pandemic-Era Supports End

The U.S. Census Bureau released two annual reports, Poverty in the United States: 2022 and Income in the United States: 2022, on September 12. The official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5%, relatively unchanged from 2021. However, the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which takes into account…

Report Shows Financial Well-Being Declined in 2022

The Federal Reserve Board released on May 22 a new report, “Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2022,” summarizing findings from the annual Survey of Household Economics and Decision-making (SHED). Thirty-five percent of adult respondents reported being worse off financially in 2022 than they…

Report Finds Housing Assistance Plays a Growing Part in Reducing Child Poverty

A new report from Child Trends, “Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty,” finds that child poverty rates decreased from one in four children in 1993 to one in 10 children in 2019. Factors associated with this decline include changes in the labor market, like increased state minimum wages…