Child poverty rates have fluctuated over the last decades but remained relatively steady

Child poverty rates by 50%, 100%, and 150% of the official poverty measure and by the supplemental poverty measure, 2002–2019

Source: Data for 50 percent and 150 percent of the official poverty measure from 2002–2017: U.S. Census Bureau, "Current Population Survey (CPS) CPS Table Creator," available at https://www.census.gov/cps/data/cpstablecreator.html (last accessed December 2020). Data for 50 percent and 150 percent of the official poverty measure from 2018–2020: U.S. Census Bureau, "Current Population Survey (CPS) Publications: Income and Poverty in the United States, Table B-3," available at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/library/publications.2019.html (last accessed December 2020). Data for 100 percent of the official poverty measure from 2002–2019: U.S. Census Bureau, "Historical Poverty Tables: People and Families - 1959 to 2019: Table 3," available at https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/cps-pov/pov-03.html. Data for the supplemental poverty measure from 2002–2008: Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, "Historical SPM Data," available at https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/historical-spm-data-reg (last accessed December 2020). Data for the supplemental poverty measure from 2009–2017: U.S. Census Bureau, "Supplemental Poverty Measure Publications," available at https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/supplemental-poverty-measure.html (last accessed December 2020).