Poverty increased to 12.4 percent, from 7.8 percent in 2021, reflecting the end of some pandemic relief programs and the impact of inflation.
Mothers from West Virginia rally on the National Mall in February 2022 before meeting with lawmakers about expanding the Child Tax Credit program. Organizers placed 500 teddy bears, each representing 100 West Virginia children could slip back into poverty due to the tax credit's end.
The poverty rate, taking into account government aid programs to the poor, was 12.4 percent in 2022, up from 7.8 percent the previous year, the census data shows. That spike coincided with the end of increased child tax credit payments and other government interventions. Tuesday’s Census release is “a story of what could have been,” said Arloc Sherloc, vice president for data analysis and research at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “The pandemic showed that we could stand up policies that could help families. These numbers underscore how much poverty is a policy choice.”
Social scientists widely consider the supplemental measure as a more useful statistic, because it more accurately reflects the felt experience of U.S. residents with scanty income.The Census Bureau releases poverty, income and health insurance data annually based on the Current Population Survey, one of its main sources of nationwide data.
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