Child poverty spiked by 41 percent in January after Biden benefit program expired, study finds

[BeckyDem]

The White House was unable to extend an expansion in the Child Tax Credit amid pushback from Sen. Joe Manchin III

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=691
A behavior technician works with Moira Gillilland, 2, who has autism, at the home of Lydia Coe in Mason, Mich., in December 2021. Coe had been utilizing the Child Tax Credit to help support her daughter. (Brittany Greeson for The Washington Post)

By Jeff Stein
Yesterday at 7:09 p.m. EST

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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/17/child-tax-credit-poverty/

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread BeckyDem.

[appalachiablue]

2. K/R. Appalling. -Fetterman Calls for Perm. Expansion of Enh. Child Tax Credit:

- Fetterman Calls for Permanent Expansion of Enhanced Child Tax Credit. "It's an embarrassment that we allowed this program to expire," said Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman, a progressive U.S. Senate candidate. Feb. 18, 2022.

Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman, a progressive U.S. Senate candidate, voiced support Friday for permanently boosting the Child Tax Credit after research showed that Congress' failure to extend the enhanced benefit caused child poverty to spike in January.

"Washington needs to be helping working families across the country, making their lives easier," Fetterman said in a statement. "The Child Tax Credit did just that, and it's an embarrassment that we allowed this program to expire."

"If I were in the Senate, I would have proudly and swiftly been that 51st vote...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/18/fetterman-calls-permanent-expansion-enhanced-child-tax-credit