![]() The Census Bureau’s annual poverty figures for 2021 won’t be available until well into next year. Census Bureau’s 2020 supplemental poverty rate - which factors in families’ expenses, as well as government assistance like stimulus checks - falling to its lowest since the estimate was first published, in 2009.įRONTLINE has been documenting how poverty impacts families - and especially children - for several years, including in the documentaries Poor Kids (2017) and Growing Up Poor in America (2020). ![]() By one measure, last year was already a notable low, with the U.S. Pandemic-era benefits may have helped drive poverty in 2021 lower than in 2020, according to researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty & Social Policy and at the nonprofit Urban Institute. ![]() When it comes to tracking how poverty impacts American families, and especially children, estimates for 2021 reveal something noteworthy. ![]()
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