The child tax credit helped push a key measure of poverty to its lowest level on record, according to new Census Bureau data Tuesday that signaled just how critical government assistance was to propping Americans up in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The child poverty rate fell by nearly half in 2021 as enhanced child tax credit sent billions of dollars to families | CNN PoliticsThe share of children in poverty fell by nearly half last year, thanks mainly to the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday.
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Census: Inequality last year grew, but child poverty droppedIncome inequality in the U.S. increased last year for the first time in more than a decade, but childhood poverty was cut almost in half due to expansion of the federal government's child tax credit and stimulus payments made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new survey results released Tuesday by the U.S.
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2021 Had Lowest-Ever Supplemental Poverty Rate, Thanks to Stimulus ProvisionsSocial Security, the child tax credit and stimulus checks helped lower the poverty rate to an all-time low of 7.8% last year, while the child poverty rate fell to an all-time low of 4.5%, according to the Census Bureau.
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COVID-aid programs helped to cut childhood poverty by 46%, new Census report showsThe number of children in poverty fell by 46% in 2021 compared to the previous year, but poverty among people 65 and older rose 13%, according to a new U.S...
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U.S. Incomes Were Flat Last Year, Census Figures ShowMedian household income in 2021 was recorded as about $70,800, the U.S. Census Bureau said in its annual report on the nation’s financial well-being.
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