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Families Will Receive Thousands More to Support Their Kids: What 'Game-Changing' New Child Tax Credit Means People 3/16/2021 © Provided by People Getty "Game-changing" and "ground-breaking." That's how the expanded child tax credit — one of the myriad provisions in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday — is being hailed by anti-poverty advocates. The impact of the expanded credit won't be fully felt for months, though some scholars have hypothesized that its implementation could help cut child poverty in half. The provision will impact...

RELEASE: New Polling Shows Strong Bipartisan Support for Federal Aid for People in Need Date: March 10, 2021 Contact: Julia Cusick Washington, D.C. — A new poll from the Center for American Progress, in partnership with GBAO Strategies, shows that there is strong bipartisan support for policies that will help provide short-term relief for Americans navigating the economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as long-term investments to strengthen the social safety net and many other poverty alleviation policies. Notably, two-thirds of voters believe it is more important for th...

Congress Is Considering 2 Plans to Get More Money to Parents. Here's How Each Would Work Time 2/12/2021 Belinda Luscombe One of the few things that everybody in the U.S. still agrees on is that a country that seven of the world’s 10 richest people call home should not have nearly one in six of its children living in poverty. Another is that the largest economy in the known universe is theoretically big enough to provide for its smallest citizens. Despite this consensus, the U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates in the developed world. Now, within days of each oth...

The Center for American Progress issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2021:. According to multiple news reports, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will announce that it is reversing Medicaid work requirement rules put in place by President Donald Trump. Maura Calsyn, interim vice president of Health Policy at the Center for American...

Washington, D.C. — Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) released the committee’s section of the fiscal year 2021 budget reconciliation bill, the legislation implementing President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The Ways and Means Committee draft would provide families with a child tax credit of $3,600 for children under age 6 […]