child tax credit

Congress could drastically reduce the child poverty rate by making permanent the Child Tax Credit. The benefits far outweigh the costs, write Ian Berlin and William G. Gale.

As we approach year three of the coronavirus pandemic, here are child welfare and youth justice stories Youth Services Insider is watching.

California is on the right track to fundamentally restructure our state economy into one that prioritizes shared prosperity over the hoarding of individual wealth.

The government has launched a pair of new web portals to help families manage and track advance monthly payments of their child tax credits.

In a bid to combat child poverty, New York lawmakers introduced a bill to permanently expand the Empire State Child tax credit.

It is often posited that child protection agencies are prone to confuse poverty with neglect, unnecessarily involving families with the courts and foster care. A new bill introduced by several Democrats yesterday would attempt to remove that possibility in more cases by supplying more parents with cash assistance.