childhood poverty

Republican Vice Presidential Nominee JD Vance Campaigns In Minnesota

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What you need to know about the child tax credit as both campaigns embrace it

4:05pm August 15, 2024

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

A major expansion of the child tax credit during the height of the COVID pandemic temporarily slashed the child poverty rate in half. That is one reason why it has become a hot topic in the presidential race.

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New parents in Baltimore could get a $1,000 'baby bonus' to reduce childhood poverty

2:18am July 09, 2024

by The Associated Press

Organizers secured the necessary 10,000 signatures to bring the question to voters as a ballot initiative in November. The proposal is loosely modeled on a program implemented in Flint, Mich.

Volunteers deliver water and other items to the homeless in Los Angeles. Poverty rates dropped in 2021 thanks in part to pandemic policy measures, but poverty advocates fear they will rise again without those measures in place.

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Poverty and uninsured rates drop, thanks to pandemic-era policies

7:22pm September 13, 2022

Child poverty is at a historic low, according to Census bureau data, and the rate of those without health insurance dropped in 2021. But the good news may be short-lived, as policy measures expire.

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