Lawmakers resistant to restoring low-income tax credits should spend a night in a homeless shelter
Maybe then, they would drop their opposition to helping Americans struggling with poverty
If there’s one thing I could tell federal lawmakers, it would be to bring back the expanded, monthly, fully refundable Child Tax Credit.
Those monthly payments of up to $300 per child cut child poverty nearly in half in just a few months. And when the credit expired in late 2021, child poverty immediately…