This country is about to embark on a grand, real-time social experiment in cutting childhood poverty. It is an outgrowth, oddly enough, of the worst pandemic in modern times, and originated in a Republican idea now decades old.
President Joe Biden’s proposal for an expanded child tax credit traces back to right here in Minnesota, where, in the mid-1990s, the late GOP U.S. Rep. (later Sen.) Rod Grams proposed a $500-per-child tax credit, aimed squarely at working- and middle-class families. It gained broad bipartisan support. The credit was signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton and was doubled as […]
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