According to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture
report, in 2022, the United States experienced more than a
30% spike in food insecurity among Americans and a
44% increase among children. That
breakdown means 30.8 million adults and 13.4 million children weren’t always sure they would have food on the table. These percentages don’t technically include the “11.7 million adults (4.6 percent of adults)” that “lived in households with very low food security, and 783,000 children (1.1 percent of children) [that] lived in households with very low food security among children.” This is the highest spike since the dark days of the 2008 financial crisis.
The cause is well understood to be the end of the child tax credit and rising food costs. The pandemic-era tax credit helped bring child poverty
down by 46% percent in 2021, and gave families and parents
peace of mind. Even with Democrats
willing to make garbage compromises with conservatives, the child tax credit was allowed to sunset at the end of 2021. The massively successful program came to an end when one of the
most corrupt politicians in our lifetime, Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, joined every single Republican senator in letting the tax credit lapse.
Child poverty soared after tax credits lapsed, pushing food insecurity to 15-year highs—discover what’s next for relief programs.
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So we cut child poverty in half in 2021, and Republicans and Manchin decided that was to much? I guess some tax credits are off limits to them after all.
