Child Poverty drops dramatically - When Government Works

I'm sure the GOP is actively trying to spin this report from the Census Bureau. Maybe something like it's good for children to be poor and hungry so they'll be forced to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps."

But for real Americans? Good news.

The Hill - Child poverty in the United States fell by 46 percent in 2021, a record low achieved largely by expanding the child tax credit, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The data shows 5.2 percent of children were in poverty in 2021, down significantly from the 9.2 percent of impoverished children the previous year.

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BackyardShaman · 61-69, M

The GOP loves child poverty and hates education. This is totally obvious.

bijouxbroussard · F

@BackyardShaman But they support life ! "All kids have the right to be born ! Even if they starve…or get shot…"

BackyardShaman · 61-69, M

@bijouxbroussard wow yes!!

marke · 70-79, M

Russia and other rogue nations put kids in government institutions because they think, like Hillary Clinton and democrats, that kids belong to the government, not parents. Unfortunately, what kids the government does not murder before and shortly after birth, they turn into functional idiots with leftist propaganda brainwashing.

Ynotisay · M

@marke Democrats think kids belong to the government? Uh...what? Dude. You might want to broaden your 'media' sources. You're living in a world that doesn't exist.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Ynotisay

You're living in a world that doesn't exist.

Shh! Let him be, we don't want him in our world!

Vin53 · M

Back in the day, ketchup served with school lunches was tagged as a vegetable.

ElwoodBlues · M

This is about how child poverty fell in the US from 1993 to 2019.

A comprehensive new analysis shows that child poverty has fallen 59 percent since 1993, with need receding on nearly every front. Child poverty has fallen in every state, and it has fallen by about the same degree among children who are white, Black, Hispanic and Asian, living with one parent or two, and in native or immigrant households. Deep poverty, a form of especially severe deprivation, has fallen nearly as much.

In 1993, nearly 28 percent of children were poor, meaning their households lacked the income the government deemed necessary to meet basic needs. By 2019, before temporary pandemic aid drove it even lower, child poverty had fallen to about 11 percent.

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To examine the drop in child poverty, The New York Times collaborated with Child Trends, a nonpartisan research group with an expertise in statistical analysis. The joint project relied on the data the Census Bureau uses to calculate poverty rates but examined it over more years and in greater demographic detail.

The analysis found that multiple forces reduced child poverty, including lower unemployment, increased labor force participation among single mothers and the growth of state-level minimum wages. But a dominant factor was the expansion of government aid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/us/politics/child-poverty-analysis-safety-net.html

Oh, one more paragraph

The analysis excluded 2020, the most recent year for which data is available, because pandemic aid made it unrepresentative. Including it makes the decline since 1993 even greater, at 69 percent.

Ynotisay · M

@ElwoodBlues But a dominant factor was the expansion of government aid.
I'll take that over military spending, which takes roughly half the discretionary budget, any day. Pull people up and people will deliver.

splishsplash

@Ynotisay Hear, Hear! 😊

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

No kidding.
And your lifespan falls instead! Conservatives won.

Ynotisay · M

@Roundandroundwego Yeah. It's a real thing. It's dropping. Life span has been tied to wealth disparity and, even more directly, Covid. And as we know, Covid was a hoax and vaccines were about control so...go Conservatives.

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