American Rescue Plan: Ending child poverty -- let's make it permanent
They are families like Kaneadsha Jones of Ohio, a mother of three. She struggled before the pandemic. But with an autistic child she couldn't leave alone when schools shut down, she had to quit her job. "No matter how much we tried," she says, "we couldn't make it work."
Or Khristan Yates, the Chicago mother of two. The pandemic put her out of work. Now, only unemployment allows her to pay rent and utility bills. She longs for the days when she could just take her kids to a restaurant. So do they.
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One out of three families are now struggling to pay household bills each month in the wealthiest country on the planet. In a year when American billionaires increased their wealth by $1.3 trillion dollars, millions of Americans have joined the poverty rolls. Is helping them impossible? Until this month, it seemed like it was.
But now with the American Rescue Plan, helping them is law. In the excitement over those $1,400 checks flowing from Washington, few people have noticed that tucked into the 5,593 pages of the new law is a small provision urged by academics and politicians for a long time: the expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC).
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