“I think that raising children is work,” Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said, defending Democrats' ambitious policy to combat child poverty.
benefit, echoing Republican talking points and throwing a wrench into a central component of his own party’s policy agenda.
Democrats want to make this expanded benefit permanent ― or at least extend it for several more years in their upcoming package of bills aimed at addressing a host of agenda items, like child care, pre-K, health care and climate change proposals. “Tax credits are based around people that have tax liabilities,” Manchin said. “I’m even willing to go as long as they have a W-2 and showing they’re working.”asking why the new child tax credit doesn’t have any kind of work or education requirement for parents.
Democrats changed that, using the child tax credit as a vehicle to expand the social safety net for poor parents. By making the tax credit fully refundable, they have created a direct-cash benefit of up to $3,600 per child, even for people who don’t make enough money to actually file taxes. A spokesperson for Sen. Michael Bennet , an early adopter of this expanded child tax credit, said the senator “believes punishing the poorest children in America because their family’s income is too low to qualify them for the CTC is self-defeating and incredibly compromising to them and to our nation’s future.”
It also made the program much simpler, said Joshua McCabe, a sociologist and senior fellow at the Niskanen Center who has studied child tax credits and child allowances internationally.
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