{"id":9190,"date":"2020-11-30T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/prior-to-covid-19-child-poverty-rates-had-reached-record-lows-in-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:43:48","slug":"prior-to-covid-19-child-poverty-rates-had-reached-record-lows-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/11\/30\/prior-to-covid-19-child-poverty-rates-had-reached-record-lows-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior to COVID-19, child poverty rates had reached record lows in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Misty Stanley sits with her daughters Kaylee (left) and Marabella at their home in Welch, West Virginia, on Sept. 9, 2019. McDowell County, West Virginia, is one of the poorest in the nation. (Michael S. Williamson\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Before the coronavirus outbreak<\/a> sent the U.S. economy into a recession<\/a>, the share of American children living in poverty was on a downward trajectory, reaching record lows across racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, the year with the most recently available data, 14% of children under age 18, or 10.5 million children, were living in poverty, down from 22%, or 16.3 million, in 2010. All major racial and ethnic groups saw declines since 2010, but the greatest decreases were in the shares of Black and Hispanic children living in poverty. About two-in-ten Hispanic children (21%) were living in poverty in 2019, down from 35% in 2010. In 2019, 26% of Black children were impoverished, dropping from 39% in 2010. Even so, Black and Hispanic children were still about three times as likely as Asian (7%) and White (8%) children to be living in poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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How we did this<\/div>