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How Can We Reduce Child Poverty?: The Challenge with the Child Tax Credit

September 27, 2023 • Center for the Study of Social Policy • Season 3 • Episode 2

We spoke with Elisa Minoff, Senior Policy Analyst at CSSP, and Huong Vu, Parent Leader Network member and Automatic Benefit for Children (ABC) Coalition Parent Advisory Board member, about their policy and advocacy work toward a permanent national child allowance. The need for a permanent expanded Child Tax Credit has only become more abundantly clear following the new Census Bureau data that shows the child poverty rate more than doubled from 5.2 percent in 2021 to 12.4 percent in 2022.

Show notes:

Child Poverty Doubled Last Year–We Owe Children So Much More - Center for the Study of Social Policy (cssp.org)

Let Us Rise and other CTC/Child Allowance Resources available at: https://cssp.org/our-work/project/advancing-antiracist-child-allowance/#featured-resources

ABC Coalition: https://www.abccoalition.org/

Parent Advisory Board principles: https://www.abccoalition.org/child-allowance-principles/