Take Action: New Report Shows Critical Need for Child Tax Credit

New data from the US Census show just how critical the Child Tax Credit (CTC) really is. Across the US today, more than 11 million children live in poverty. In the richest country in the world, that should be completely unacceptable!

Right now, our best tool to end child poverty is to expand the Child Tax Credit. We know this because when Congress temporarily expanded the CTC in 2021, child poverty fell by half. And when that expansion expired at the end of 2022, the child poverty rate shot back up.

That’s why we need Congress to do right by lower-income families and bring back the expanded CTC, which will directly benefit millions of children in California and nationwide currently left out of the full credit.

Urge Congress to prioritize low-income families and revive the expanded Child Tax Credit. Millions of kids are depending on it!