Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising
FILE - Jaqueline Benitez, who depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2023. Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year whenpandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government expanded the child tax credit and sent payments to people who had suffered from the pandemic, lowering poverty measures in 2021. The expansion of the child tax credit expired at the end of 2021, and other pandemic-related benefits have expired within the past year.
“This represents a return to child poverty levels prior to the pandemic,” Liana Fox, an assistant division chief at the Census Bureau, said during a news conference. “We did see the child tax credit had a substantial decrease in child poverty."blamed congressional Republicans for failing to extend the enhanced child tax credit and vowed to restore it.The median household income in 2022 was $74,580, a decline of 2.3% from 2021.
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