I was a girl when my family was evicted, all our belongings on
the street.

We moved in with my grandmother. At our kitchen table, I learned
about the importance of raising your voice for change, and
working for all those struggling to get by and get ahead.

John, I learned never to give up. It's been just over 18 years since
I first introduced my plan to lift millions of children out of
poverty by expanding the Child Tax Credit, a plan that has now
finally been implemented for the next year through the pandemic
relief package signed this month by President Biden.

President Biden's Chief of Staff on my work to expand the Child
Tax Credit

This afternoon, I met with Vice President Kamala Harris in New
Haven to discuss the historic impact of the American Rescue Plan,
and why the changes it implements to lift millions of American
children out of poverty must be made permanent.

As of this morning, more than 40 Democratic U.S. Senators have
written a letter to President Biden encouraging him to make this
change permanent. Do you support permanently expanding the Child
Tax Credit to cut child poverty virtually in half?
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So what took so long?

There were years Democrats didn't even want to talk about poor
children. It was hard to get people's attention, to get people to
really understand that we could help millions of children and
their families out of poverty.

But I wasn't giving up. My parents would never have accepted
"no" for an answer.

This legislation expands and improves the Child Tax Credit, and
makes it fully refundable -- if you are so poor that you do not
owe taxes, you now get the tax credit in cash, monthly. Families
will all get the same monthly payments, unless parents opt for
annual benefits.

Poor, working, and middle class families will receive
$300/month, per-child ($3,600/year) for children under 6 years of
age and $250/month, per-child ($3,000/year) for children between
the ages of 6 and 17. No new bureaucracy, no need for a new
agency.

John, more than 11.9 million children struggle against poverty in the
United States, but the Biden administration's relief package only
expands and increases the Child Tax Credit for one year -- this
falls far short of providing a stable foundation for the future.

Now must be the moment where we make permanent changes to lift
generations of children out of poverty. Please add your name here
if you agree that Congress should pass my legislation to
permanently expand and improve the Child Tax Credit→
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The economic devastation that's come with the COVID-19 pandemic
has deepened the crisis of child poverty for an ever-growing
number of working families.

But we can help them all -- studies show that we could cut Black
child poverty by 52.4%, cut Hispanic child poverty by 45.4%, and
cut Native American child poverty by 61.5% by permanently
expanding the Child Tax Credit.

Sign my petition now to support the permanent expansion of the
Child Tax Credit. It took 18 years of work to make this moment
possible, and it's critical that we keep the pressure up to make
the temporary changes enacted by the American Rescue Plan
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Thank you for standing with me in the fight to end child
poverty,

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauroPaid for by the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, www.ctdems.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
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