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SPM child poverty rate, 2025

What will the Supplemental Poverty Measure child poverty rate be for calendar year 2025 as published by the U.S. Census Bureau?

current forecast · 80% CI13.1%
12.0%13.1%14.4%
history:2021: 5.2%2022: 12.4%2023: 13.7%2024: 13.4%

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Key drivers

  • CTC and EITC current-law parameters
  • 2025 labor-market strength
  • Shelter and medical out-of-pocket costs
  • SNAP and school-meals resources

Resolution

source
U.S. Census Bureau, Poverty in the United States: 2025
expected
September 15, 2026
rule
Resolves to the official SPM child poverty rate (children under 18) for calendar year 2025 in the Census Poverty in the United States report, expected in September 2026. If Census publishes multiple SPM variants, this uses the main published SPM table.
Data point
census.spm.child_poverty_rate.2025

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Live mode checks public Census release/SPM pages, verifies the PolicyEngine current-law policy, applies an explicit child-poverty calibration prior, and calls the forecast model when AI Gateway credentials are available. If the API fails, the page replays the static trace.

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