SIGN NOW! Tell your members of Congress to expand the Child Tax Credit! SIGN NOW

Dear Friend,

I know you just picked out your pumpkins and the leaves are still falling but I’m already thinking about the end of the year. 

Why? Because we have an incredible opportunity to create real bipartisan change and provide millions of families with some desperately needed cash—but we need YOU and CONGRESS to make it happen!

***Sign our letter now calling on Congress to pass an expansion of the Child Tax Credit by the end of the year!

Here’s what’s going on: Negotiations have already begun for a major end-of-the-year tax package. This is a huge opportunity for us to create real change for our families and once again get a much needed expansion of the Child Tax Credit. As you may remember as part of the American Rescue Plan last year, we were able to secure monthly Child Tax Credit checks sent to 40 million U.S. families. [1] Those checks are responsible for reducing child poverty by half last year—so we know this is a policy that works! [2]

This is our opportunity to demand that Congress take care of the unfinished business of providing an expansion of the Child Tax Credit for our families. A bipartisan tax package would require 60 votes in the U.S. Senate, meaning that at least 10 Republicans would need to support it without any Democratic defections. But we are so very close to having the numbers to pass this policy—more and more Republicans are starting to see just how important the Child Tax Credit is to our families. We just need to keep pushing them so it’s a top priority for the end of the year!

The time to raise our voices is now!

 ***SIGN our letter demanding Congress pass an expansion of the Child Tax Credit by the end of the year!

Cutting the child poverty rate almost in half was a major step forward in helping our families during a tough economic time. But unless Congress acts soon–by the end of the year–all that progress will go away. Plus you and I both know how critical the Child Tax Credit checks are for our families. We heard from thousands of you who said you used it to pay for childcare, buy groceries, medicine, and clothes for your family, pay the rent, afterschool programs for your kids, back-to-school supplies, and so much more! We can’t go back on that progress nor on our promise to our children to create a brighter future for them. 

Make sure to sign our letter to Congress on the Child Tax Credit and then forward this email to your friends and family so they can sign as well. We’ve created enough momentum to pass a historic expansion of the Child Tax Credit before, we can do it again!

- Elyssa, Kristin, Donna, Hanna, and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team

P.S. Your stories matter! Sharing your story with us on how an expanded Child Tax Credit would help your family helps us show lawmakers, journalists, and other parents just how important this policy is. Share your Child Tax Credit story with us now!

References:

[1] White House. “State by State analysis of American Rescue Plan Tax Credits for Families and Children.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/08/fact-sheet-state-by-state-analysis-of-american-rescue-plan-tax-credits-for-families-and-workers 
[2] Annie E. Casey Foundation. “New Data Show That the Child Tax Credit Fueled a Substantial Reduction in Child Poverty.” https://www.aecf.org/blog/new-data-show-that-the-child-tax-credit-fueled-a-substantial-reduction-in-child-poverty

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