The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did [npr.org]

By Cory Turner, Image: LA Johnson/NPR, National Public Radio, January 27, 2022

Blink and you could have missed it.

For six months, the United States experimented with an idea that's new here but is already a backstitch in the social fabric of many wealthy nations: a monthly cash payment to help families cover the costs of raising children. Less than a year in, though, this U.S. experiment, known as the expanded child tax credit, has already been unwound by a deadlocked Congress.

Still, it's worth asking: What did it accomplish? Here's what the data tells us.

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