Don't Let the U.S. Senate Hold Outs Keep Money from Families -- Restore
the CTC NOW!
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Dear Friend,

Since last summer, families across the country have been breathing a sigh
of relief each month when the Child Tax Credit (CTC) payment arrives,
giving families up to $300/child each month. [ [link removed] ] However, February 15th
marked the SECOND month that families were unable to receive their monthly
CTC check! 

Families cannot afford to wait a minute longer. [1]Tell the U.S. Senate:
The monthly Child Tax Credit payments must continue!  We are counting on
you to pass Build Back Better immediately to restore monthly payments to
families, pass paid family and medical leave, and boost child care that
helps children and families thrive!

The pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families and communities across
the country – child care providers continue to be on the frontlines as
they care for children who still lack access to an approved COVID-19
vaccine and face historic staffing shortages as the pandemic wears on.
This is happening at the same time that forced closures continue in child
care settings, impacting parents' and families' health and ability to get
to work. After all, we all know it can be next to impossible to be at work
without access to child care – and that child care providers need
protection too. When you add the lack of paid leave to help ensure
families can stay home when sick and not lose critical income while
isolating, it’s a MESS.

And just as families needed support to deal with the Omicron surge, the
monthly CTC payments ended in December because Democratic Senator Joe
Manchin and the Republican Senators refused to pass Build Back Better
which would have extended it. The Senate has now stopped two critical
monthly payments from going into the pockets of families. It's more
important than ever to pass the Build Back Better Act to extend the CTC,
advance affordable child care and free Pre-K, guarantee paid family and
medical leave, make home-and community-based services for the elderly and
those with disabilities more affordable, pay care workers living wages and
create good care jobs, lower the cost of insulin and other prescription
drugs, make healthcare more affordable, and more.  

[ [link removed] ]→ Tell the Senate to stand with families and vote YES for the Build
Back Better Act.

Building off President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, the U.S. House of
Representatives passed legislation to extend the expanded CTC and ensure
that low-income families will ALWAYS have access to the monthly benefit.
It also includes key provisions like paid family and medical leave and
affordable child care – all of which would be a lifeline to parents and
families who are facing a particularly contagious variant of the COVID-19.
BUT Senator Joe Manchin and Senate Republicans failed to act and locked
families out of their monthly Child Tax Credit payments and critical
policies that support families in good times and pandemic times, like paid
family and medical leave and affordable child care and elder care. 

After just a single monthly CTC payment, the number of families who said
that their household didn’t have enough to eat fell by 3.3 million or
nearly one-third! [2] THIS IS NOT TIME TO TAKE OUR FOOT OF THE GAS.

Because the Senate failed to act, all the great improvements to the Child
Tax Credit are going away, sending millions of children and families back
into poverty, disproportionately impacting families of color. In fact, if
Build Back Better isn’t enacted, the Child Tax Credit would revert to
providing the least help to the children who need it most — about 27
million children would once again get a partial credit or none at all
because their families’ incomes are too low. [ [link removed] ] It’s clear: [3]The CTC
expansion needs to be restored and we need to enact pro-family and
pro-business policies like paid family and medical leave and affordable
child care to lower family costs and weather this pandemic. 

*We need your help to speak out! Please use your voice and sign our letter
calling on the U.S. Senate to get back to work and restore the expanded
Child Tax Credit by immediately passing the Build Back Better Act. 

And while we are at it, let them hear loud and clear that children and
families need investments in the full suite of programs that allow
families to thrive: paid family and medical leave, child care, lower drug
prices and healthcare, home- and community-based services, and a pathway
to citizenship.

Families have been rising to demand the change we deserve and Congress
needs to step up and do their jobs for families across the country. We
won’t let Congress revoke the single largest reduction for child poverty –
we demand they take action today! 

[ [link removed] ]Don’t forget to sign on to tell Congress to pass Build Back Better to
ensure a better future for our children and families!

Thank you for being a powerful voice for children and families,

- Hanna, Lauren, Ruth, Nina, Kristin, Donna, and the whole
MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder Team

 

[1] [ [link removed] ]MomsRising’s Child Tax Credit page

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