FILE - President Joe Biden arrives to speak at an event to mark the start of monthly Child Tax Credit relief payments, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, on July 15, 2021, in Washington. President Joe Biden and leading Democratic lawmakers have been fighting to make permanent a child tax credit that would give families at least $300 a month per child. But the latest budget deal would extend the payments through the end of the next year.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Child tax credit tussle reflects debate over work incentives
By Josh Boak/AP
Evan Vucci / AP
FILE - President Joe Biden arrives to speak at an event to mark the start of monthly Child Tax Credit relief payments, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, on July 15, 2021, in Washington. President Joe Biden and leading Democratic lawmakers have been fighting to make permanent a child tax credit that would give families at least $300 a month per child. But the latest budget deal would extend the payments through the end of the next year.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
(Washington) — President Joe Biden and leading Democratic lawmakers, including Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, have been fighting to make permanent a child tax credit that would give families at least $300 a month per child.
But the latest budget deal would extend the payments just through the end of the next year.
Biden is still fighting for a legacy-making policy that could become the equivalent of Social Security for children.
But what started in 1997 as a bipartisan project is now riven by a sharp ideological divide: Do the payments cause people to stop working or provide them the resources to find a job?
A collection of interviews, photos, and music videos, featuring local musicians who have stopped by the WITF performance studio to share a little discussion and sound. Produced by WITF’s Joe Ulrich.
