Child Tax Credit

Republicans don’t serve their states. They immiserate them

By Noah Berlatsky / December 19, 2022 /

Why are people from states with the worst child poverty problems determined to kill the Child Tax Credit expansion program?

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Make ‘Social Security for children’ permanent 

By Noah Berlatsky / September 13, 2022 /

What would the United States look like if we decided that children and their families had a right to abundance and liberty? 

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Manchin and the GOP smear the poor to avoid helping them

By Noah Berlatsky / March 8, 2022 /

Cash payments lift kids out of poverty. To the rightwing, though, that can’t be. The poor are poor, because they deserve their poverty.

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