Chart: Poverty rose sharply for AIAN children in 2022, leaving them worse off than before the pandemic: Supplemental child poverty rate by race and ethnicity, 2019–2022 | Economic Policy Institute

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Poverty rose sharply for AIAN children in 2022, leaving them worse off than before the pandemic: Supplemental child poverty rate by race and ethnicity, 2019–2022

	2019	2020	2021	2022
White alone, not Hispanic	7.0%	5.7%	2.7%	7.2%
AIAN alone	14.0%	15.2%	7.4%	25.9%
AIAN alone or in combination	13.7%	12.6%	8.1%	18.5%

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Note: Race and ethnicity are not mutually exclusive for AIAN groups.

Source: EPI analysis of United States Census Bureau Supplemental Poverty Measure data (Table B-2).

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