Federal expenditures per child fell from the pandemic-related high of $10,710 in 2021 to about $9,910 per child in 2022, as temporary relief funding is spent down, a report from the Urban Institute finds. The report, Kids’ Share 2023: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2022 and Future Projections (61 pages, PDF), found that expenditures through tax provisions and social services, training, and housing programs fell in 2022, while spending on nutritional assistance and income security, health, K–1 education, and child care and early education programs increased. Expenditures in all these categories are expected to decline in 2023. Of the $761.1 billion in total spending on children in 2022, tax expenditures accounted for the largest share, at 35 percent ($264 billion, down $162 billion from 2021), followed by health ($146 billion, up $10 billion), nutrition ($119 billion, up $11 billion), education ($104 billion, up $23 billion), child care and early education ($37.5 billion, up $10 billion), and housing ($10 billion, down $7 billion). The report also found that the share of federal outlays allocated to children grew, albeit unevenly, from the 1960s to the mid-2000s and has remained around 9 percent to 10 percent of the budget since then, outside of recessions.