The country's child poverty rate more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, a new report published Tuesday from the Census Bureau revealed, an increase that is largely the fault of Congressional Republicans' blocking the Child Tax Credit enhancement for 2022, according to President Joe Biden.
In the span of a year, the Census Bureau found that the United States' rate for child poverty went from a historic low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022, noting in the "Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2022" report that the expirations of temporary enhancements to the Child Tax Credit and other key government policies lead to an overall rise in poverty in the supplemental poverty measure, which extends the official measure by accounting for government programs designed to aid low-income families, last year.
