How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them ...

After the expanded child tax credit expired, America's child poverty rate doubled. Why was that policy so successful, and what can be done to fill the gap?

The expansion of the child tax credits under the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child poverty shot back up.".

CTC Data Shows How Children Are Lifted out-of-Poverty

While that was being released, the advocacy community, including CWLA, are having increased concerns that these same families could face a cliff in January with ...

The antipoverty effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit across states

It is not obvious, for example, whether the expanded CTC would have reduced poverty more or less in higher-versus lower-poverty states, or ...

New Report: U.S. Can Lift 5.5. Million Children Out of Poverty Right ...

It outlines nine policy improvements that, enacted together, would benefit 95 percent of all poor children, lifting 5.5 million of them out of poverty entirely.

Record Rise in Poverty Highlights Importance of Child Tax Credit

Just giving low-income children access to the full $2,000 credit (without lifting the credit maximum as the 2021 expansion did) would have kept ...

Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty - Child Trends

In 1993, the initial year of this decline, more than one in four children in the United States lived in families whose economic resources— ...

The Child Tax Credit and Its Potential Impact on the Lives of ...

20), “How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It” (interview with Christopher Wimer at Columbia ...

The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty - NPR

As an example, Curran points out that a two-parent, two-child household needed to earn at least $36,000 a year to qualify for the full benefit.

Poverty | The New Yorker

How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It ... After the expanded child tax credit expired, America's child poverty rate doubled ...

Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked ...

Imagine the federal government could lift millions of American children out of poverty with a single program.

Government's Pandemic Response Turned a Would-Be Poverty ...

The Rescue Plan by itself lifted more people, including more children, above the poverty line with government assistance in a single year than ...

Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the ...

According to the US Census Bureau, the expanded credit lifted one million children under the age of six out of poverty, while it did the ...

Child Tax Credit expansions were instrumental in reducing poverty ...

Within that, the expanded Child Tax Credit—a key element of the 2021 American Rescue Plan (ARP)—lifted 2.1 million children out of poverty. The ...

The profound impact of giving American families a little more cash

Six months of payments lifted millions of children out of poverty. Then they stopped. by Marin Cogan. Photography by Séan Alonzo Harris for ...

Child Poverty - Children's Defense Fund

Prior to the pandemic, the CTC was responsible for lifting over four million children out of poverty through various governmentally accessible programs in 2018.

Child Tax Credit and Nutrition Programs Improvements Needed to ...

When it ended in 2022, poverty and food insecurity skyrocketed. Clearly, the ripple effect of the end of the CTC expansion continued through ...

A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income ...

Together, the EITC and CTC lift more children out of poverty than any other federal program (Marr et al. 2015). Despite these policy successes, one particularly ...

As child poverty doubles, states launch or expand their own tax credits

The expansion helped lift 3 million children out of poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which found that most parents said they used ...

HUFFPOST – A Year After Biden's American Rescue Plan, Kids Are ...

In December, the child tax credit lifted nearly 4 million children out of poverty. If it had been extended through 2022, it would have cut child pov. Click ...