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New analysis on how families spent monthly CTC payments.

Code for America's learnings from GetCTC, a simplified filing tool to help people access the Child Tax Credit

The CTC improved the mental health of adults in the lowest-income families

The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) for infants and toddlers link to direct payments, early care and learning.

The focus of a children’s tax credit should be…children.

Child poverty, calculated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), fell to its lowest recorded level in 2021

This year’s data demonstrate how powerful enhanced government supports like the Child Tax Credit (CTC) can be.

San Diego County currently offers child care subsidies to families who qualify and also helps fund training program

Even before the pandemic strained the military system, families waited six to 18 months for child care.