Federal benefits cuts are looming – here’s how Colorado is trying to protect families with children
- Written by Stephen Roll, Assistant Professor of Social Policy, Washington University in St. Louis
Colorado is leveraging its tax code to reduce child poverty. Royalty-free/Getty ImagesChildhood poverty in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in history in 2021. The fall was largely due to the expanded child tax credit and other COVID-19 pandemic supports that put cash directly in the hands of parents and lifted millions of children out of poverty....