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An expansion of the child tax credit is ending, just as the latest wave of coronavirus cases is keeping people home from work and threatening to set off a new round of furloughs.
Child tax credit’s extra help ends, just as COVID surges anew
An expansion of the child tax credit is ending, just as the latest wave of coronavirus cases is keeping people home from work and threatening to set off a new round of furloughs.
On welfare reform’s 25th anniversary, experts ponder how to measure success
>> Jason DeParle, The New York Times Published: 29 Jul 2021 11:55 AM BdST Updated: 29 Jul 2021 11:55 AM BdST Kathryn Goodwin with her children at their home in Saint Charles, Mo, on July 25, 2021. From left: Aliyah, 6; Vivian, 3; Xavier, 5; Evelyn, 2; and Chloe, 11. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times) The huge increase in government aid prompted by the coronavirus pandemic will cut poverty nearly in half this year from prepandemic levels and push the share of Americans in poverty to the lowest level on record, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of a vast but temporary ex...