America is the richest country on Earth. Yet millions — millions — of our nation’s children live in poverty.

Congress actually did something about that last year by expanding a key tax break known as the Child Tax Credit.

By the end of 2021, the rate of child poverty in America had been cut by almost half.

But the expanded Child Tax Credit was not renewed for this year.

So child poverty is ramping back up. At the same time, runaway inflation — caused in large part by outright corporate profiteering — is making seemingly everything cost even more now than it did last year.

We have just a matter of weeks to pass critical legislation before Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

One essential piece of unfinished business is making the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent.

Click now to tell Congress: For a country as rich as ours to have so many children living in poverty is a national disgrace. You know exactly how to address this crisis — you expanded the Child Tax Credit for just one year and child poverty was reduced by 46%. Don’t play politics with children’s lives. Make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent.

Thanks for taking action.

For progress,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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