On Connecticut visit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says federal child tax credit....

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Source: Hartford Courant

Full Headline: On Connecticut visit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says federal child tax credit aimed at lifting families out of poverty should be permanent

By CHRISTOPHER KEATING HARTFORD COURANT | SEP 08, 2021 AT 6:03 PM

EAST HARTFORD — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in East Hartford to mark the enhanced federal child tax credit now being paid with the goal of lifting families out of poverty, said Wednesday she wants to make the enhanced benefit permanent.

“The goal of the rescue package was to put vaccines in people’s arms [and] money in people’s pockets,’' the Democrat told reporters outside Goodwin University.

Pelosi and others cited the case of Carmen Rodriguez, a Hartford grandmother of nine who spoke at the press conference, along with top Democratic officials. Pelosi -- who noted she also has none grandchildren -- made her pitch for the credit and the federal coronavirus stimulus plan in the hometown of U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, a close political ally for the past two decades.

“With this money, we can educate our kids and catch them up,’' said Rodriguez, citing the lost time due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rodriguez said she is caring for the children of her son, who died in 2020, along with several other grandchildren.

Read more: https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-pelosi-larson-lamont-child-credit-20210908-37civyvqqzdpzorzvts2aglkfe-story.html

[Budi]

1. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "..make the enhanced child tax credit permanent."

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in East Hartford to mark the enhanced federal child tax credit now being paid with the goal of lifting families out of poverty, said Wednesday she wants to make the enhanced benefit permanent.

“The goal of the rescue package was to put vaccines in people’s arms [and] money in people’s pockets,’' the Democrat told reporters outside Goodwin University.

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Thank you Speaker Pelosi & Thank you Democrats.
THIS is the basic tenats of the Democratic Party.
Always has been, Always will be.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. That is really good news

The more they expand benefits permanently, the more of a corner Republicans will be in at election time or the more unpopular things Republicans will do when in power - cutting benefits, which will cause voters to kick them out! Hope their reforms to SS and Medicare are substantive.

[iluvtennis]

4. + agree. n/t

[sheshe2]

3. Thank you Speaker Pelosi.

[bhikkhu]

5. One of the hardest things for me to think about is how poor I was raising kids,

half of it through the Great Recession. There wasn't much help, a little bit from tax credits, but this was before Obamacare and we mostly had nothing. The kids avoided sports all through school knowing that one injury and we'd be done. Keeping the house (which we did) was a big struggle.

Anyway, some people who went through that might think "I didn't get a break, why should they?"

Other people, myself included, are just glad that somebody seems to care finally, and things can be a little easier (at least on one front) for a newer generation.

[cstanleytech]

6. They should look raising the cutoff for the tax credit as well as adding adult disabled dependents

for couples to claim as long as the dependent resides with the couple.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Reform the tax code. Stop using it for social programs.