'I'm afraid,' mother says as expanded child tax credit looks likely to lapse
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Since July, the lives of tens of millions of children across the U.S. have gotten better thanks to one simple government program: the expanded child tax credit. The last monthly payment included in the American Rescue Plan went out on Wednesday, though, virtu'I'm afraid,' mother says as expanded child tax credit looks likely to lapse
Since July, the lives of tens of millions of children across the U.S. have gotten better thanks to one simple government program: the expanded child tax credit. The last monthly payment included in the American Rescue Plan went out on Wednesday, though, virtually guaranteeing that 36 million households will not get a check in January. If the Senate does not pass a version of Build Back Better soon, those 36 million households will be waiting longer—or forever. “I'm afraid,” Tory Miesko, a Pennsylvania single mother and full-time office administrator, told Good Morning America. “I'm trying to keep my sons out of poverty.” Read more