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Boosting Child Tax Credit Would Lift Poor Black Children Out of Poverty

August 28, 2015

by Freddie Allen, Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Reforms proposed to the Child Tax Credit by the Center for American Progress could help to reduce poverty in children younger than 3 years old in the Black community by nearly 22 percent. The plans to enhance the credit are laid out in a report by […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Poverty, Center for American Progress CAP, Child Tax Credit, Freddie Allen, Poverty

Poverty Still Major Affliction for Blacks

June 5, 2015

By Stacy M. Brown June 5, 2015   Congressional Black Caucus Chair G.K. Butterfield said Republicans must help Democrats fight poverty in African-American communities. (Courtesy Photo)   Stacy M. Brown is Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer.     Black America is in a state of emergency, and what’s happened in Baltimore, Ferguson, […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Poverty, Congressional Black Caucus CBC, G.K. Butterfield, Gender Gap, JUNE 5 2015, Poverty, VOL. 25 NO. 21, Wage Gap



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