More than one in six children now live in poverty, versus one in eight children in December when Child Tax Credit payments were still in place.
. In the first month of payments, around 3 million children were kept out of poverty due to increases in monthly family incomes; by the last month, the number of children being kept out of poverty by the program went up to 3.7 million.
In December, the child poverty rate was 12 percent. In January, it climbed up to 17 percent — meaning that more than one in every six kids in the country are now living in poverty, versus close to one in eight last month. Critics of Manchin’s proposals said that they would be detrimental to the overall goal of helping children.
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