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Political Scientist Zach Parolin Talks Poverty Measurement in the 2024 Census at Harvard School of Public Health Talk | News | The Harvard Crimson
The U.S. saw a sharp rise in the government's supplemental poverty rate and a fall in real incomes in 2022, with the rate for children more than doubling.
This is more than the lifetime salary premium that typically comes with a college degree, researchers found.
“Racism has undermined efforts to deliver a social safety net in the U.S. for a very long time,” one scholar says.
Since the expiration of child tax credit payments, poverty rates among children has nearly doubled