A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.

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    As a percentage of the population, overall poverty stayed the same from 2023 to 2024 (12.9%), while child poverty fell slightly (from 13.7% to 13.4%).

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      Except Biden’s term didn’t start in 2023

      (It didn’t start in 2019 either, but starting in 2020 would be unfair I guess because apparently the only way Anerica can do the stimulus checks and expanded benefits that brought these things down that year is if there’s a literal once in a century natural disaster and if we let a Republican president sign it so their extremely fragile egos don’t get hurt)