Amid ongoing congressional debate over expanding the Child Tax Credit for U.S. families, it’s important to understand why the fears about the expansion of that tax credit in 2021 were wrong. One of the more prominent concerns voiced at the time was that families who qualified for the expanded tax credit would spend the additional
Reading Time: 4 minutes I started reporting on missing migrant children four years ago, almost by accident. I was trekking up a steep muddy road in the northern highlands of Guatemala, looking for the mother of a 16-year-old who drowned in the Rio Grande, when a man outside a small chapel greeted my fixer and
The U.S. Senate has a crucial opportunity to expand the highly successful Child Tax Credit (CTC) by adopting the bipartisan tax bill that recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives with overwhelming support. The CTC expansion in the tax bill would provide much needed resources for 16 million U.S. children in working families with low
Poverty statistics are essential for determining how prevalent poverty is in the United States and documenting whose basic needs are going unmet. This data also helps to target resources and assess the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends updating the methodology used by the
President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in the 1960’s. But, nearly 60 years later, millions of Americans still live below the poverty line. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated more than 11% of the country’s population was at or below the poverty line. Matt Desmond, though, says there are things all of us can
