Students play flute during band practice at Orefield Middle School in Orefield, Pennsylvania, US, April 12, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
Starting July 15, roughly 39 million households covering 88 percent of children in the United States will begin receiving monthly payments as part of an expanded child tax-credit program projected to lift more than 5 million children out of poverty this year, cutting child poverty by more than half, said the Treasury Department on Monday.
The payments, called Child Tax Credit (CTC), are part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that President Joe Biden signed in March to lessen the impact of COVID-19 and revive the economy.
Child tax credit payment increased
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(Reuters) â As Covid-19 upended education during the past year, Pennsylvania middle school teacher Jennifer Lundberg often began her English lessons gauging the mental wellbeing of her students.
Sometimes, she would turn the lights off and dedicate a few minutes of in-person class to walking the kids through exercises that asked them to identify stressors they were experiencing.
With her own teenage daughter suffering from bouts of depression and anxiety brought on by the pandemic, the veteran teacher saw evidence all around her of the urgent need for mental health support for young people. They are struggling in a way that I feel like a lot of times they don t even have words for, Lundberg said. I ve had students who have left in the middle of the day to go to the ER to get evaluated.