🚨The poverty rate FELL 2.6 percentage points last year, despite the coronavirus pandemic recession, when factoring stimulus payments.
Stimulus payments: Sometimes a popular policy is also beneficial and good huffpost.com/entry/income-p…
Checks lifted 11 million above poverty specifically because there was no income requirement -- exactly the thing Joe Manchin now says he dislikes about the child tax credit.
Children still had higher poverty in 2020 than other age groups.
Children still had higher poverty in 2020 than other age groups.
Big picture.
For all the failings of Congress and the Trump administration, the 2020 income & poverty reports suggest policymakers rose to the occasion when it came to mitigating hardship from the pandemic recession.
For all the failings of Congress and the Trump administration, the 2020 income & poverty reports suggest policymakers rose to the occasion when it came to mitigating hardship from the pandemic recession.
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