Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the only ethnic group in Ohio without a state-level commission.
Ohio s AAPI leaders have been trying to change that for more than a decade. But with this year s Atlanta shooting and a rise in anti-Asian hate incidents stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates have renewed their push to create the Ohio AAPI Commission. I think sadly, the result of what happened in Atlanta is that people have been willing to listen more. Legislators were more willing to meet with us, said Jona Hilario, the co-director of OPAWL, a statewide feminist AAPI group. The conditions that led to Atlanta exist everywhere else. We shouldn t be waiting for another Atlanta to happen to do something.
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Do you have to pay back the Child Tax Credit 2021?
Unlike the stimulus checks paid out, the new advance payments on the Child Tax Credit will have to be repaid if you get more than you are eligible for.
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Starting 15 July, millions of American families
will receive federal financial support in the form of direct payments to help covering the costs of raising children. The payments are an advance on the 2021 Child Tax Credit greatly expanded in the American Rescue Plan passed in March by Democrats.
The Child Tax Credit has been around since the late 1990s and
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