CLASP

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"CLASP’s results underscored again that the expanded CTC significantly reduced family hardship and hunger."

“The child poverty reductions were stunning,” Indi Dutta-Gupta, president of the Center for Law and Social Policy, told Levin. “We had very well-designed policies to send child poverty to levels we’ve never seen in this country.”

Elizabeth Lower-Basch says fighting poverty is "about giving people the resources they need to meet their and their families’ needs.”

Thanks to powerful federal investments in programs that support people seeking economic security, the child poverty rate in 2021 as measured by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) dropped by nearly half, from 9.7 percent in 2020 to 5.2 percent in 2021, the lowest level measured.

Indivar Dutta-Gupta: "This was obviously a very well designed and targeted program if your goal was to keep kids out of poverty.”

This article references a recent CLASP study on the child tax credit.

Elizabeth Lower-Basch on fighting poverty: "It's about giving people the resources that they need to meet their and their families' needs."

"Parents are having a hard time making ends meet after the end of monthly Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments, according to a new survey from the Center for Law and Social Policy."

Indi Dutta-Gupta on the expanded child tax credit: “We had very well designed policies to send child poverty to levels we’ve never seen in this country.”