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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGoodbye 'godsend': Expiration of child tax credits hits home
By Associated Press -January 16, 2022 10:00 AM
An analysis by the Urban Institute estimated that extending the credit as developed by the Biden administration would cut child poverty by 40%.
For the first time in half a year, families on Friday are going without a monthly deposit from the child tax credit a program that was intended to be part of President Joe Biden's legacy but has emerged instead as a flashpoint over who is worthy of government support.
Retiree Andy Roberts, from St. Albans, West Virginia, relied on the checks to help raise his two young grandchildren, whom he and his wife adopted because the birth parents are recovering from drug addiction.
The Robertses are now out $550 a month. That money helped pay for Girl Scouts, ballet and acting lessons and kids' shoes, which Roberts noted are more expensive than adult shoes. The tax credit, he said, was a "godsend."
https://americanindependent.com/child-tax-credits-expiration-poverty-west-virginia-joe-biden-manchin-republicans/
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Goodbye 'godsend': Expiration of child tax credits hits home (Original Post)
turbinetree
Jan 2022
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,466 posts)1. Hold onto your hats.
renate
(13,776 posts)2. It's easy for me to sit on the sidelines and criticize, but why isn't the DNC running ads on this?
JOE MANCHIN AND THE ENTIRE GOP ARE KEEPING YOU FROM GETTING YOUR CHILD TAX CREDIT.
doc03
(35,389 posts)3. Hey WV you can thank you know who for that nt
Busterscruggs
(448 posts)4. Why can't our president
Make an executive order on this critical issue?