The child poverty rate fell to a record-low 5.2 percent in 2021, down from 9.7 percent in 2020 and 27.9 percent in 1993, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a report Tuesday. The Census report also found that the percentage of uninsured Americans dropped to 8.3 percent, or 27.2 million people, last year, from 8.6 percent in 2020. The drops were attributed largely to temporary expansions of the social safety net during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the augmented child tax credit enacted in 2021's ...
The child poverty rate fell to a record-low 5.2 percent in 2021, down from 9.7 percent in 2020 and 27.9 percent in 1993, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a report Tuesday. The Census report also found that the percentage of uninsured Americans dropped to 8.3 percent, or 27.2 million people, last year, from 8.6 percent in 2020. The drops were attributed largely to temporary expansions of the social safety net during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the augmented child tax credit enacted in 2021's ...
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