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Child Supplemental Poverty Measure Below Official Rate in 46 States

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its annual report, Poverty in the United States: 2023, which found the 2023 national official poverty rate of children under 18 was higher than the child Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

But was that the case in every state?

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Today is Child Poverty Day and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and we’re releasing findings of a new analysis showing that the SPM rate was lower than the official rate in 46 states and the District of Columbia for the combined years of 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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