April 13, 2021
By Todd Post
Bread for the World celebrated the March passage of the American Rescue Plan, which includes immediate help for families, small businesses, and local governments devastated by the economic impacts of COVID-19. As I wrote last month, one feature in particular, expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC), could lead to dramatic reductions in child poverty and hunger.
This piece explained how expanding the CTC makes more grocery money available to parents struggling to put food on the table. The catch is that the American Rescue Plan contains only a one-year expansion. I want to focus now on the need for advocacy to make it permanent. It will take additional effort for the policy improvements to make a lasting difference for children.