Perspective | Want to improve the lives of children? Expand the child tax credit.
“… three antiabortion Republican senators have put forward a proposal to expand the federal child tax credit, challenging Carlin’s claim that pro-lifers don’t care about life after birth — a proposal that, despite its flaws, is projected to lift more than 1 million children out of poverty. While that complicates the Democrats’ effort to brand themselves as the only party that cares about humans outside the womb, it also creates an opening for a bipartisan compromise that could meaningfully improve the lives of low-income children.”