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When government aid is accounted for, childhood poverty drops. The Supplemental Poverty Measure accounts for noncash aid; the Official Poverty Rate does not. That decline holds true across the New England states and the U.S. as a whole. In Vermont, childhood poverty was a third lower from 2021 through 2023 when government benefits were counted. State-level refundable tax credits, particularly the Child Tax Credit enacted in 2022, helped lift 3,000 Vermont kids out of poverty during this period.
