Jack, sign the petition: Child poverty has doubled. Restore the federal child tax credit.

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We tried to warn Congress, but they wouldn't listen. According to the Census Bureau, child poverty more than doubled from 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022. This was no accident.

In December 2021, Congress failed to extend the federal child tax credit that had lifted nearly 4 million kids out of poverty—despite support from President Biden and most of the Democratic Congress. Legislation to restore it has since stalled.

When the child tax credit was in effect, surveys showed that families overwhelmingly used the money on basic necessities like food, housing, and utilities—and some were even able to start planning for emergencies.

There is a movement to restore the child tax credit. “When we expanded the Child Tax Credit," said Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), "we demonstrated that we don’t have to accept one of the highest childhood poverty rates in the industrialized world as a permanent feature of our democracy. [The Census data shows that] we never should have let it expire."

Sign the petition to Congress: Fight child poverty. Restore the federal child tax credit

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Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos