The earliest child tax credit payments meant 3.3 million households with kids had enough to eat
“’It’s not just that some families that were already receiving the credit are now seeing larger amounts,’ said Zippel. ‘It’s also that we have a significant number of the lowest incomes who are newly eligible for the credit for the first time.’
That’s been especially beneficial to Black and Latino households, who’ve been hit hardest by the pandemic, she said.
The rate of food hardship, or not having enough to eat, declined to 15% from 20% among Black adults with children, to 13% from 21% for Latino adults with children and to 13% from 22% for American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander adults with children, according to the latest data.”