Payments from the child tax credit were closing the gaps on child hunger and poverty. But Congress failed to renew it. Now families who need it most have already slipped back into financial trouble.
Payments from the child tax credit were closing the gaps on child hunger and poverty. But Congress failed to renew it. Now families who need it most have already slipped back into financial trouble.
The monthly child benefit an expansion of the existing child tax credit part of the Biden administration's response to the pandemic is ending, just as the latest wave of coronavirus cases is keeping people home from work and threatening to set off a new round of furloughs.