Child poverty spiked by 41 percent in January after Biden benefit program expired, study finds [washingtonpost.com]

Ingrid Cockhren (PACEs Connection Staff) 2/23/2210:40 AM

By Jeff Stein, Photo: Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 17, 2022

The number of American children in poverty spiked dramatically in January after the expiration of President Biden’s expanded child benefit at the end of last year, according to new research released on Thursday.

The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University said that the child poverty rate rose from 12 percent in December 2021 to 17 percent last month, an approximately 41 percent increase. The study found that an additional 3.7 million children are now in poverty relative to the end of December, with Black and Latino children seeing the biggest percentage point increases.

“The overall monthly child poverty rate rose sharply between December 2021 and January 2022,” the study found.

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