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Monthly Yearly How one small detail in the proposed child tax credit reveals the political balancing act over tax relief University of Connecticut economist Fred Carstensen A proposal to deliver state tax relief to Connecticut’s working poor and middle class is testing state officials as they balance issues of fairness, longstanding racial inequities and political reality. Not long after House Democratic leaders announced a scaled-back, more affordable child tax credit, University of Connecticut economist Fred Carstensen noted that some of the changes would come largely at the expense of the poor. But another advocate for the credit said that Connecticut currently goes too little to assist struggling, working class households and can’t miss this opportunity to help lift them out of poverty.

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