1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2023 . 2. Child poverty goal and accountability Title IV of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 601 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after part B the following: C Child poverty accountability measure 441. National goal to cut child poverty by half (a) Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to reduce the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half in 5 years. (b) Sense of the Congress It is the sense of the Congress that an effort to reach the goal described in subsection (a) shall include reducing the number of children in deep poverty as well as reducing child poverty among racial or ethnic groups with disparate poverty rates. 442. Establishment of annual reporting (a) Anchored supplemental poverty measure The Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the Bureau of the Census to report an anchored Supplemental Poverty Measure for individuals who have not attained 18 years of age, annually beginning with calendar year 2023. Beginning with the report for calendar year 2024, the report shall be based on poverty thresholds which are adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index for all-urban consumers (as published by the Department of Labor). This subsection shall not be interpreted to require or authorize the replacement of any other calculation or measure reported by the Bureau of the Census. (b) Timing of release of Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement microdata The Bureau of the Census shall release the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement microdata for each year as a single file containing the anchored Supplemental Poverty Measure and any other poverty rates the Bureau of the Census reports. The file shall be released at the same time as the Bureau of the Census report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States. That report, or companion reports, should include poverty statistics and thresholds for the