UPDATE: The Child Tax Credit expansion – which could lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line – is coming under attack in the Senate!
A number of bad amendments have been proposed that would reduce the number of children who’d get the tax credit expansion, and together they’re stalling momentum on a bill that passed the House of Representatives with a margin of 357 to 70!
One of the amendments would create a double-whammy for some families: cutting their child tax credit because they earned less in the current year, by eliminating a "lookback" provision in the original bill to avoid exactly this cruel scenario.
It’d be especially punitive because a drop in earnings is so often out of the control of low-paid workers like domestic workers, who often lose work because employers cut their hours or emergencies force them to cut paid hours to be able to care for their own families.
The reality is the fate of the Child Tax Credit Expansion hangs on whether we can reject these attacks quickly, and push Senators to follow the bipartisan lead of the House of Representatives to pass the bill as soon as possible.
Thanks for standing up for care,
The NDWA Advocacy Team
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