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News Articles: child tax credit

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  • Politics

Proposals to rein in child care costs in Georgia gain early support from Senate leaders

Georgia Senate leaders have started to outline specifics of their plans to reduce child care costs when they meet back at the Capitol next month.

December 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ross Williams
Sh'Amir Spencer and daughter Amira pose with Rx Kids co-director Mona Hanna at the Hurley Children's Center clinic in Flint, Mich. Spencer and her daughter are part of the first cohort of moms and babies in the program, which launched in the city in January.

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  • Health

As federal aid shrinks, communities try new ways to tackle child poverty on their own

After Congress ended extra cash aid for families, local efforts aimed to fill the gap. In Flint, Michigan, Rx Kids gives cash aid to every family for a baby's first year. Will it work elsewhere?

December 02, 2024
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  • Kate Wells
Joseph Yusuf plays basketball with his daughter, Jakayla Morton, 11, in Alexandria, Va., on March 29.

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  • Elections

Parents are struggling with high prices this year. It may shape how they vote

Inflation is a top-of-mind issue for many Americans during this year's presidential election, and the strain of high prices is being felt particularly hard by people raising children.

April 06, 2024
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  • Ashley Lopez
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., leaves the Senate chamber in May.

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  • Politics

This Republican senator wants an expanded child tax credit — with work requirements

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says the U.S. has lost focus over the last 20 to 30 years and economic policies need to be geared towards creating stable work for families.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • and 1 more
A swing sits empty on a playground outside in Providence, R.I. Experts say the end of the expanded child tax credit was a key factor in the big rise in child poverty.

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  • National

Child poverty more than doubles — a year after hitting record low, Census data shows

Experts point to the expanded child tax credit as key to this poverty yo-yo. When it ended, many lower-income families struggled to pay their bills or buy enough food.

September 12, 2023
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  • Jennifer Ludden
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks to the infant child of Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., inside the House chamber during votes for the next speaker of the House on the first day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 3.

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  • Politics

With an eye on working families, Democrats launch the Congressional Dads Caucus

A group of Democrats formed the Dads Caucus in the House, hoping to advocate for key democratic policies such as the expanded child tax credit and paid family leave.

January 28, 2023
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  • Ximena Bustillo
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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Music Midtown canceled; Claiming unborn kids on taxes; Update on Fulton probe

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Music Midtown has been canceled, allegedly because of Georgia's gun laws. Plus, the State Department of Revenue will allow Georgians to claim embryos on income tax deductions. Meanwhile, Tamar Hallerman provides an update on the latest in the Fulton County probe.

August 02, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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  • Economy

Why America Has Been So Stingy In Fighting Child Poverty

The U.S. has a long tradition of favoring old people over kids. A new paper investigates why.

February 22, 2022
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Local residents, Cara Baldari and her nine-month-old daughter Evie (L) and Sarah Orrin-Vipond and her eight-month-old son Otto (R), join a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol December 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. The monthly Child Tax Credit payments expired at the end of last year after Congress failed to renew it.

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  • Politics

3.7 million more kids are in poverty without the monthly Child Tax Credit, study says

In one month, the child poverty rate increased from 12.1 to 17 percent, the highest rate seen since Dec. 2020. Black and Latino children experienced an even higher rate of poverty.

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Children draw on top of a canceled check prop during a rally in favor of the child tax credit in front of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

Families are in distress after the first month without the expanded child tax credit

January is the first month since July 2021 that more than 36 million families in the U.S. did not receive money from the expanded child tax credit program. For some, the consequences are already dire.

January 22, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Laura Sifuentes lives in Rosedale, Miss. The government's Child Tax Credit, a monthly payment for many American parents with kids, helped her financially when she had to give up her job to care of her kids, nieces and nephews during the pandemic.

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  • Business

Why many Americans continue to struggle despite trillions of dollars in pandemic aid

The government provided Americans with a vital financial lifeline during the pandemic, including through the Child Tax Credit. The help improved lives – but for many it still wasn't enough.

January 15, 2022
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  • Stephan Bisaha
The continuation of the child tax credit payments had depended on Congress passing the Build Back Better legislation before Friday.

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  • Family

The expanded child tax credit expires Friday after Congress failed to renew it

Because the Build Back Better agenda was not passed by the Senate before the end of the year, the last payment of the expanded child tax credit program went out this month.

December 30, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., leaves his office after speaking with President Biden about his long-stalled domestic agenda, at the Capitol on Monday.

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  • Politics

Where things stand with the monthly expanded child tax credit payments

Because an extension of the child tax credit is tied in with President Biden's Build Back Better social spending plan, it remains unclear whether the monthly payments will continue beyond this year.

December 14, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Vaccines arrived in Ga. a year ago; Eliminating ballot drop boxes; Rivian factory

On today's show: A Republican leader in the state Senate filed a bill to eliminate drop boxes, which have enabled voters to cast absentee ballots more easily. Meanwhile, Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to announce later this week that Rivian, one of the country’s largest manufacturers of electric vehicles, is set to build an assembly plant in Georgia.

December 14, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 1 more
Hannah Ochoa poses for a portrait with her family in Marietta

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  • News

The COVID-era child tax credit saved her family. Now she and others fear the worst as it expires

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress backed an enhancement to the longstanding child tax credit program, historically doled out when Americans file their taxes. Now, families face a lapse in help.

December 14, 2021
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  • Riley Bunch
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