Lessons from 2023 poverty, food security & income stats 🧵 -Poverty esp child pov continues to grow from historic 2021 lows -Letting expanded CTC & other safety net provisions expire is worst thing we’ve done for poverty -Some measures of economy don’t capture hardship-see fig

We proved in the last few years that poverty is a policy choice. When pandemic-era CTC expansion expired in 2022, the child poverty rate doubled. Food insecurity also spiked in 2022 especially for households with kids.