These days, many Americans are engaged in their own form of March Madness, gathering their various tax related documents needed to submit their taxes to the IRS on time for the April 18 deadline. But, not all Americans realize that tax time has become the most critical part of the year for low-income families struggling to cope with the high costs of raising young kids.
The Century Foundation provided research on the Child Tax Credit as part of an important new white paper released by the U.S. Child Poverty Action Group today in Washington, D.C. on family tax policy. The U.S. Child Poverty Action Group is a new joint effort patterned on a successful campaign in Britain to enact a multi-year, research-based effort to bring down child poverty. With children more vulnerable to poverty than any other group of Americans, and U.S. child poverty worse than all but four of thirty-seven major industrialized nations, the time is certainly now for action on child poverty.
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