Absence of Monthly Child Tax Credit Leads to 3.7 Million More Children in Poverty in January 2022

Zachary Parolin (), Sophie Collyer and Megan Curran
Additional contact information
Sophie Collyer: Columbia University
Megan Curran: Columbia University

No 20417, Poverty and Social Policy Brief from Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University

Abstract: The monthly child poverty rate increased from 12.1 percent in December 2021 to 17 percent in January 2022, the highest rate since the end of 2020. The 4.9 percentage point (41 percent) increase in poverty represents 3.7 million more children in poverty due to the expiration of the monthly Child Tax Credit payments. Latino and Black children experienced the largest percentage-point increases in poverty (7.1 percentage points and 5.9 percentage points, respectively).

Keywords: poverty; Child Tax Credit; social policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2022-02
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/s/Monthly-poverty-January-CPSP-2022.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/s/Monthly-poverty-January-CPSP-2022.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://povertycenter.columbia.edu/s/Monthly-poverty-January-CPSP-2022.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aji:briefs:20417

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Poverty and Social Policy Brief from Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Zachary Parolin ().