Predicted but no less stunning decline (9.7% to 5.2%) in child poverty (using Census Bureau's preferred alternative poverty measure) from 2020-2021 driven largely by enhanced #ChildTaxCredit, which Congress failed to extend. 
No single transfer program did more to keep children--5.3 million people overall, a majority of whom were children--out of poverty in 2021 than the enhanced #ChildTaxCredit
We achieved the lowest child poverty rate (under the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for tax credits) on record, thanks largely to the #AmericanRescuePlan's now-expired enhanced #ChildTaxCredit. Congress should find a way to renew this policy ASAP.
Along with the strengthened #EarnedIncomeTaxCredit, the enhanced #ChildTaxCredit helped shrink racial disparities in poverty while helping children of all races & ethnicities in the pandemic. Renewing both will be crucial to achieve racial equity.
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