Roughly 19 million low-income children are currently denied the maximum $2,000 per child credit. The communities we represent are counting on you to address rising child poverty rates by expanding the CTC focused on these children. Allowing child poverty to continue and increase, as it did last year, is a policy choice. The data show there were particularly significant increases in poverty among Black and Latino children, with the poverty rate for Black children rising from 8.3 percent to 18.3 percent and for Latino children from 8.4 percent to 19.5 percent. [ii] In short, our incredible progress in reducing child poverty was erased.

Source: New York Times November 09, 2023 19:14 UTC