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John,
What are Congress’s priorities in an end-of-year tax package? The answer is up to us.
While high-priced Wall Street lobbyists are demanding billions of dollars in corporate tax handouts, we’re fighting for an expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) with monthly payments that reaches the lowest income-earning households.
In 2021, the expanded CTC helped cut the child poverty rate by 46%, lifting millions of children out of poverty. This was particularly impactful for Black children, Hispanic children, and other vulnerable communities because, for the first time, the full Child Tax Credit reached the lowest income-earning households.
This is a fight not just for children and families, but about our country’s priorities.
Too often, Congress sides with the rich and corporations while leaving vulnerable communities behind. But that’s exactly why we’re here―to apply grassroots and lobbying pressure to members of Congress and make sure the voices of low-income people, people with disabilities, and older Americans are heard.
Congress wants to pass a tax package by the end of this year, and potentially attach it to the must-pass stopgap funding bill being voted on this coming week.
Rush a donation today to keep the pressure on Congress and demand an expanded Child Tax Credit that reaches the lowest income households.
Right now, a parent with two children needs to make over $27,900 in order to receive the full CTC—they’d need to work full time at twice the current federal minimum wage to get the full CTC.[1]
The structure of the current Child Tax Credit is upside down, resulting in nearly half of Black children, 4 in 10 Indigenous children, and 1 in 3 Latino children receiving less than the full credit—if they receive a credit at all—purely because their families’ incomes are too low.[2]
Already, we’ve sent tens of thousands of messages to members of Congress demanding they prioritize children and families in an end-of-year tax package. Power this work with a donation today!
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Thank you for demanding Congress put children and families first.
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
[1] Lapse of Expanded Child Tax Credit Led to Unprecedented Rise in Child Poverty
[2] Any Year-End Tax Legislation Should Expand Child Tax Credit to Cut Child Poverty
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