What the end of the child tax credit means for childhood poverty
“The advanced child tax credit is ending this month. Families will have to pay for rent, food, and child care without the help of the federal government.
The credit, however, was never meant to be temporary. But since Congress chose not to save it after the failure to pass President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, this will be the last month families receive that monthly few hundred dollars.
As a part of our listener-suggested series, we talk about how the child tax credit could have been the key to ending childhood poverty for millions of Americans.”