Senator Cory Booker supported extending the child tax credit. Although Congress did not renew it, some states are adopting similar programs.Credit…Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times For a brief period during the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government gave most parents monthly cash — up to $300 per child — with no work requirements or restrictions on how the money could be spent.
The experiment, through an expanded child tax credit, died last year after 12 months, when Republicans and Senator Joe Manchin III, the moderate West Virginia Democrat, refused to renew it.
But a growing number of states are moving forward with […]
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