The Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Gone. The Battle Over It Remains.

A pandemic-era program that sent monthly checks of up to $300 per child to most families drove down poverty rates. Amid new research about its merits, some Democrats are vowing to bring it back. Tax credit payments of $750 a month raised cash income by nearly 50 percent for Thomas Horton and his wife, Pamela Mudge, lifting them above the poverty line and providing them breaks from the family’s frugal norms.Credit…Nate Smallwood for The New York Times WASHINGTON — When the history of American hardship is written in some distant decade, two recent events may capture the whipsaw forces […]

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