Source: United States Senator for Ohio Sherrod Brown
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Case You Missed It: An article from The New Republic today highlighted the push U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is leading in Congress to extend the American Rescue Plan expansions of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). Families began automatically receiving monthly CTC payments of up to $300 per child in July and Brown is working to extend these critical tax cuts in the upcoming family infrastructure bill. By fighting to extend these tax cuts for working families, Brown wants to put our government back on the side of the people who make our country work.
Brown helped write and pass the American Rescue Plan with these expanded CTC benefits, based on his bill the Working Families Tax Relief Act. President Biden signed this bill in March, and nearly all families with children are eligible to receive the tax cut – including 92 percent of Ohio kids’ families — making it the largest tax cut ever for working families.
“Brown says the arrangement builds a ‘foundation for families,’ with the expanded child tax credit as a cornerstone in that edifice. With the credit, parents are ‘going to buy better food for their kids, they’re going to be able to make their home safer, they’re going to be able to give their kids more opportunity,’ he said,” wrote Grace Segers for The New Republic.
“Everything I do is going to be aimed at making sure this doesn’t go away,” Brown said. “I don’t speak in superlatives often, but this is the most important thing I’ve ever done.”
Read The New Republic’s full article HERE, and an excerpt from the piece below:
The Expanded Child Tax Credit Was a Godsend to Struggling Families. Will Democrats Save It?
The phenomenally effective and wildly popular program could be the centerpiece of the party’s midterm argument—if only it could agree to keep it.
By Grace Segers
September 14, 2021
… The expanded child tax credit, or CTC, is a cornerstone in President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda—an immediate method for reducing child poverty that has produced tangible results, and a bankable applause line in any campaign event.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that the changes implemented by the American Rescue Plan would lift more than four million children above the poverty line, cutting the number of children in poverty by nearly 40 percent. The benefit reaches nearly 60 million children in around 39 million households.
“There’s two things I really like about this child tax credit,” Senator Sherrod Brown told The New Republic. “One, it’s predictable, it’s coming every month. And second, we trust families to make the decision [of] how they’re going to spend the money.” The Ohio Democrat has long been a champion of expanding the child tax credit and repeatedly introduced the legislation on which the American Rescue Plan’s expansion was based …
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