This story covering our recent report  highlights Social Security’s unheralded role as protection against poverty for children:

By the Center’s calculations,  25.5% of children who benefit from Social Security live in households whose income falls below the poverty line. Yet without the Social Security cash, an extraordinary 43% of them would be poor.  Put another way, in 2014 Social Security lifted 1.1 million kids out of poverty, up from just under 900,000 in 2001. (The U.S. Census Bureau reports the official poverty rate for all U.S. children in 2014 was 21.1%, compared to 13.5% for adults through the age of 64 and just 10% for those 65 and older. )