By Ana Martinez-Ortiz A year ago, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan. Under the plan, the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit underwent changes which expanded the amount of money parents and workers earned back. Earlier this week, Gene Sperling, alongside Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) and U.S. Rep. Steven […]
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Child Tax Credit: A Game Changer
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor One of my favorite comedians is Lavelle Crawford. He has this pretty funny skit in which he says his mom would give him “the speech” before they entered the grocery store. “Don’t ask for nothing, don’t touch nothing, don’t look at nothing,” Crawford said, doing his best imitation […]
Boosting Child Tax Credit Would Lift Poor Black Children Out of Poverty
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 […]