Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog reports on the 36 million American families with more than 61 million children who won't be getting a Child Tax Credit payment this week because of Senate inaction. And we look at how the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lives on today. Please share!
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This week on the blog...
Where's my Child Tax Credit?
January 13
For the past six months, more than 61 million children in roughly 36 million families across the U.S. have received a monthly payment of $250 or $300 per child. Today, some parents may be surprised – in a very bad way – to learn that the monthly payments have ended. Tax credits that would have landed in families’ bank accounts beginning Friday, January 14 won’t happen because the Senate could not agree to extend them. READ MORE »
Continuing King's 'Revolution of Values'
January 14
On January 15, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was leaving a planning meeting for the Poor People’s Campaign when he was called back into the room. It was his birthday — his last, it would turn out. The staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference would usually give King a new suit, but this year they wanted to make him laugh. Xernona Clayton teased, “We know how fond you are of our president Lyndon Johnson,” which got a laugh. Then she pulled out a metal cup engraved: “We are cooperating with Lyndon’s War on Poverty. Drop coins and bills in cup.” READ MORE »
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