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Federal Policy Impacts on Child Poverty

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Under congressional mandate, the National Academies’ Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF) and the Committee on National Statistics will conduct a consensus study to assess the impacts of the 2021 federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on the level of poverty for children. The study will build on the 2019 NASEM consensus report, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty.

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Pathways to Reduce Child Poverty: Impacts of Federal Tax Credits

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2025

Federal tax credits are among the nation's most powerful tools for reducing child poverty. Temporary expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 demonstrated the scale of impact these policies can have, lifting more than 2 m...

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