Lawmakers resistant to restoring low-income tax credits should spend a night in a homeless shelter

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Lawmakers resistant to restoring low-income tax credits should spend a night in a homeless shelter

Sat, 05/04/2024 - 05:30
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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…

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