American Rescue Plan Act Includes Critical Expansions of Child Tax Credit and EITC | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
March 15, 2021 Two key tax credit provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act will provide significant help to those on the fault lines of some of the pandemic’s worst economic effects. People who have lower incomes, are Black or Latino, have less than a college education, or work in face-to-face service occupations have long faced barriers to high-paying jobs and opportunity, which the pandemic and its economic fallout have widened. The Act’s temporary provisions making the full Child Tax Credit available to all children except those with the highest income...