received a total of up to $3,600 per child, with payments of up to $300 per child being sent on a monthly basis in the second half of 2021.
The lawmakers added that the expanded EITC"helped an estimated 17 million workers, who received $700 more on average than under the previous credit." Democrats pushed last year to include the expanded CTC in the Build Back Better Act, but were stymied by Republicans and right-wing Sen. Joe Manchin . When the credits expired in January 2022, an estimated 19 million children in the lowest-income households once again became ineligible for the full tax credit, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities .
the CBPP earlier this week."These families face the greatest challenges in making ends meet and coping with recent high inflation."Jayapal said Thursday that the election of a number of progressive Democrats and the absence of the so-called"red wave" Republicans and pundits were confident would take place in the midterms demonstrated"a call to us to do more, not less.
RepJayapal No thoughts and prayers for this attempted murder?
RepJayapal I read somewhere a statistic stating that 20 percent of any group are not really in line with the rest of the group. Extending child credit is good but what is happening is we taxpayers are also supporting that 20%. Get your books clean first and then extend the child credit.
RepJayapal No additional corporate tax breaks, period!
RepJayapal Money for war but not the poor.
RepJayapal Secure the southern border