New: Dems are planning to fund health coverage for roughly 2 million people shut out of Medicaid expansion in their new $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders told POLITICO.w/ @AliceOllstein https://t.co/iqutTr46jU— Rachel Roubein (@rachel_roubein) July 14, 2021
I thought it was the Child Tax Credit that was going to cut child poverty in half (although it would still fail to do so since nearly half of impoverished families don’t file taxes…)
I thought it was the Child Tax Credit that was going to cut child poverty in half (although it would still fail to do so since nearly half of impoverished families don’t file taxes…)
In reality it’ll probably cut it by a quarter.
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/05/17/irs-confirms-major-ctc-participation-problems/
I thought it was predicated on both of those two things happening.