Washington Failed to Expand the Child Tax Credit. Can Albany Get Kids Out of Poverty Instead?
One in five kids in New York live in poverty. Legislators are pushing Hochul to fulfill her promise to cut that rate in half.
Julia Rock · April 9, 2024
Governor Kathy Hochul visits a classroom in New York City on July 25, 2022. | Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul
“Often the birth of a child will trigger a spell of poverty.”
—Kate Breslin, Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council
The idea for the Working Families Tax Credit “came from a frustration born out of the expiration of the federal expanded child credit.”
—State Senator Andrew Gounardes
Seven year old boy selling papers at Columbus Circle, New York City, on October 8, 1910.
| Paul B. Schumm via Library of Congress.
Julia Rock is a reporter for New York Focus. She was previously an investigative reporter at The Lever.
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