The number of households with children that reported not having enough food in the past week dropped substantially after the first child-tax-credit payment began—going from 13.7% to 9.5%
IT SEEMED LIKE a blustery overpromise when President Joe Biden pledged in July to oversee, “the largest ever one-year decrease in child poverty in the history of the United States”. By the end of the year, however, he will probably turn out to have been correct. Recent modelling by scholars at Columbia University estimates that in July child poverty was 41% lower than normal.
The amounts are also more generous than before: parents of young children receive $300 per month while those with children above the age of six receive $250. Those payments, passed as part of Mr Biden’s $1.9trn stimulus plan, only began in July. But in just one month they had a big effect. The child-poverty rate dropped from 15.8% in June to 11.9%, representing a decline of 3m American children living in poverty.
The Treasury Department set up an online portal to allow such families to register for the benefits. To begin with this was a clunky website that could not be read in Spanish or easily navigated on mobile phones. No dedicated funds were set aside for so-called navigators to assist hard-to-reach families.
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