Yet another item rolling off the line from the Progressive Democratic Ideas Factory: Now that monthly payments for the expanded Child Tax Credit in the American Rescue Plan are set to start reducing child poverty, how about we also fix other parts of the social safety net, too, like increasing benefits for Supplemental Security Income (SSI?? Go read this excellent explainer by Dylan Matthews at Vox , which calls attention to a piece of the safety net lots of people don’t know much about, unless they need it. And millions of Americans — 7.8 million — do.
Honestly, while we […]
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