Children are poorer than adults in 50 of 51 states (2024)
The gap runs from 7.7 points in District of Columbia to -0.2 in New Hampshire. In Connecticut, the median of 51 states, 13% of children were poor against 10.2% of everyone, a gap of 2.8 points. Civic Forecast calculation from Census SAIPE child poverty over ACS all-ages poverty (2024), by state. SAIPE is modelled, ACS surveyed; their all-ages rates differ by under a point.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.