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The historic reduction in child poverty vanished as policymakers left the social safety net to wither again in 2022: Child poverty rates (SPM), 2019–2023
| White | Black | Hispanic | AIAN | Asian | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7.0% | 20.6% | 20.3% | 14.0% | 9.5% |
| 2020 | 5.7% | 17.2% | 14.7% | 15.2% | 6.7% |
| 2021 | 2.7% | 8.3% | 8.4% | 7.4% | 5.1% |
| 2022 | 7.2% | 18.3% | 19.5% | 25.9% | 9.9% |
| 2023 | 7.2% | 20.7% | 22.0% | 19.7% | 14.0% |
Note: AIAN refers to American Indian and Alaska Native. Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive and race categories are single race, except for Asian and AIAN groups, which are single race but not mutually exclusive (i.e., white alone non-Hispanic, Black alone non-Hispanic, Hispanic any race, AIAN alone, and Asian alone).
Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2024, Supplemental Poverty Measure data (Table B-2).
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- Low-income families of color took a heavy hit during the last two recessions: Trump’s economic agenda, based on austerity for the poor and subsidies for the rich, will leave these families at risk of even more hardship in the next recession
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