Child Tax Credit
Why Haven’t Democrats Touted the Child Tax Credit?
As part of the American Rescue Plan Act that passed in March 2021, Congress passed a new, expanded child tax credit. Among other provisions, the credit mandated monthly payments for...
Senate Democrats Are Preparing to Fight for the Child Tax Credit
The enhanced child tax credit was a policy idea that made it into the American Rescue Plan Act that was passed in the early months of the Biden administration. It...
Build Back Better: Biden Calls for Return of Expanded Child Tax Credit
The expanded child tax credit was a government initiative that appeared by all metrics to have served its intended purpose, in this case dramatically reducing child poverty. The credit was...
How the Child Tax Credit Took Child Poverty to a Record Low
U.S. Census data earlier this week showed that the U.S. childhood poverty rate had reached a new all-time low of 5.2 percent in 2021. The childhood poverty rate surged to...
Success: U.S. Child Poverty Hits All-Time Low
A new report in Axios, citing U.S. Census data, said Wednesday that the U.S. child poverty rate hit an all-time low of 5.2 percent in 2021, compared to a high...
White House, Senate Democrats Make Final Push for New Child Tax Credit
The Biden administration and Senate Democrats are making one last push to green-light the enhanced child tax credit this year, according to a new Axios report. And in order to bring back the...
Critics Blast Democrats for Killing the Child Tax Credit
In recent weeks, the Biden administration and its allies in Congress have been celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which included a large amount of spending on climate...
Missing Piece: Child Tax Credit Absent From Manchin-Schumer Bill
The Inflation Reduction Act, featuring elements of President Biden’s agenda that had been under consideration since the Build Back Better package last year, passed the U.S. Senate on Sunday by...
Can It Pass? Grassley Introduces Bill to Protect Tax Credits From Inflation
The expanded child tax credit is gone, after expiring at the end of 2021. Now, one senator has introduced a bill that would make changes to that credit. However, it...
Latest Reconciliation Talks Don’t Include the Child Tax Credit
The Build Back Better framework, which was the Biden administration’s major proposed spending package last year, collapsed in December after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced he opposed it, leaving the...
Is Compromise Possible? Romney Introduces Latest Child Tax Credit Alternative
Back in early 2021, when the American Rescue Plan Act was being debated, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) proposed the Family Security Act as an alternative. The proposal was rejected in...
Child Tax Credit: Activists Refuse to Stop Fighting for American Families
As a result of the American Rescue Plan Act, the expanded child tax credit existed for the second half of 2021, bringing direct payments each month for most American families...