Share of children in families experiencing hardship
Note: Material hardship rates for children from 2017-2019 are calculated using three years of data, while rates in 2020 forward are
calculated using single years of data given the rapid changes in economic conditions and policy following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Child hardship rates from 2020 forward may thus be subject to more year-to-year variability than years prior to the pandemic due to
increased sampling error. Year-to-year changes for children after 2020 should thus be interpreted with caution.
In 2020, the Poverty Tracker sampling design also changed to include an oversample of New Yorkers of Chinese descent, including
those who speak Mandarin. Thus, pre-2020 results are not directly comparable to results from 2020 to the present, which we signify
with a dashed line between 2019 and 2020 in the New York City trend line. See Appendix B for additional details.
Poverty rates for 2023 differ slightly from those published in Volume 7 of the “State of Poverty and Disadvantage in New York City”
because the 2023 sample composition changed with the inclusion of a new sampling frame that was not available at the time of
original publication. See Appendix B for additional information.
Source: Annual Poverty Tracker survey data, second through sixth Poverty Tracker cohorts.