Rosa DeLauro has spent 30 years in the House fighting for an adequate Child Tax Credit and paid family leave. She’s finally getting someplace.
Child Tax Credit
Posted inBuilding Back America
Undoing Welfare Reform
If Congress makes the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, simple, and universal, it could have reverberations across the entire welfare state.
Posted inTAP
Will Biden Make the Child Tax Credit Permanent?
Today on TAP: The time to get this done is now
Posted inPolitics
Will Trump’s Holdover IRS Chief Sink Biden’s Child Tax Credit?
Commissioner Chuck Rettig disingenuously claims he can’t meet the program’s July launch deadline.
Posted inPolitics
The Precarious Greatness of the Biden Strategy
The relief legislation could be the first step toward solving long-standing political problems for Democrats.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s Child Tax Credit as Universal Basic Income
The most transformative part of the American Rescue Plan will be very hard for Republicans to reverse.
Posted inTAP
How to Help the Poor and Still Win Elections
Today on TAP: The brilliance of the American Rescue Plan
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Country’s First Child Allowance (Almost)
California has enacted a groundbreaking budget that makes nearly all low-income families eligible for a child tax credit.