The share of children in poverty fell by nearly half in 2021, thanks mainly to a one-year enhancement of the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Some 5.2% of ...

People pick up food from the Sugartree Ministry food bank. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Ohio’s poverty rate was 8.7% in 2021, according to a recent study by Columbus-based firm Scioto Analysis.

Researchers at Boston Medical Center, working with colleagues at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Harvard ...

Sept 13 (Reuters) - A key measure of how many Americans lived in poverty in 2021 fell to a record low thanks in large part to federal government assistance measures aimed at supporting households ...

Poverty among Black children in the United States dropped nearly half from 2020 to 2021, following the expansion of the child tax credit, according to U.S. Census Bureau supplemental poverty measure ...

An important set of economic numbers were reported Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, that tell us about poverty. The official poverty rate was 11.6% in 2021, basically unchanged from 2020. It’s a ...

A measure that accounts for all federal subsidies also showed a reduction of almost half in the number of children below the poverty level. By Lydia DePillis and Jason DeParle A second year of ...

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