The data show a child poverty rate of 4.5%, the lowest child poverty rate on record. The data show that the economic security and well-being of children and families improved in 2021, due largely to federal programs such as the child tax credit, unemployment insurance, food assistance (including SNAP emergency allotments, school lunch, and Pandemic EBT), and health care assistance (including Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program). In all, government interventions lifted 45.4 million people out of poverty in 2021.
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