Not only are kids physically safer, but their families are more secure economically. Even with the economic disruptions of the pandemic, child poverty was lower in 2020 than at any time since the 1970s; child poverty had come close to an all-time low in 2019. Thus Polar and Gen Z kids are less likely to be poor than Millennial and Gen X kids were (see Figure 7.3). The poverty rate of adults under 64, which includes nearly all parents of children under 18, was also at an historically low rate even in 2020. In 2019, adult poverty was lower than it had been at any point since 1979.
