Tag: child tax credit
About 11 percent of the children in poor families are living with adults who receive Social Security’s retirement, disability, or supplemental cash benefits. The children are often Black or Hispanic. One out of every four of the families has income below $35,000, and many of the children live with a retired grandparent. If the child…
To gauge how much the federal government’s COVID assistance helped the nation’s disadvantaged children, consider what happened after the relief stopped. Millions of low-income children have lost their health insurance and the COVID tax relief that had lifted their families out of poverty. In March 2020, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act,…
