How the Monthly Child Tax Credit Reduced the Level of Desperation in America

With the enhanced CTC, fewer parents resorted to selling their blood plasma and paying 391% interest rates in order to feed and house their families

Money is protection. When we have enough of it, it can be an all-purpose shield, able to protect us from all kinds of things. Protection from the most extreme things also need not require extreme amounts of money. In fact, a surprisingly small amount of money can mean the difference between experiences born of desperation, and being protected from desperation-born experiences.

With that in mind, thanks to the publication of a new study of the full six months of 2021’s monthly child tax credit, the following is a look at how parents were using the direct payments – not so much what they were doing with the money – but the things they no longer needed to do thanks to having money and being able to depend on that money each month...

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How the Monthly Child Tax Credit Reduced the Level of Disparity in America

Money is protection. When we have enough of it, it can be an all-purpose shield, able to protect us from all kinds of things.

Humanity ForwardZebulon Newton, North Carolina

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