3.7 million children went into poverty in the US after expanded child tax credit expired in December

According to the authors of a study released Thursday by the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University: “While in place, the monthly child tax credit payments buffered family finances amidst the continuing pandemic, increased families' abilities to meet their basic needs, reduced child poverty and food insufficiency, and had no discernable negative effects on parental employment.” There was an attempt to extend it, but because the Senate still thought “it was discouraging parents from working” despite statistics showing otherwise, the program ended up expiring and families stopped receiving those benefits. We live in a society that sends almost 4 million children into poverty to punish parents for not working enough in a pandemic. SOURCE 1: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/594892-study-us-child-poverty-spiked-41-percent-after-end-of-child-tax-benefit?amp SOURCE 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/17/child-tax-credit-poverty/