Sorely needed child tax credit payments a welcome boost for families across poverty-stricken region
By Kaitlin Thorne Ohio Valley ReSource The Robsons, like the vast majority of U.S. households with children, recently began receiving…
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Jason Bailey: Expanded Child Tax Credit is landmark victory against child poverty, let’s not let it vanish
This week Kentucky families began benefitting from the most extraordinary policy change to address child poverty in many decades —…
Child tax credit payments to begin Thursday; reducing child poverty with direct payments
On Thursday, July 15, the first payments for the newly expanded child tax credit will go out to some 39…
Terry Brooks: Let’s flip destiny for Kentucky’s kids — KIDS COUNT data can inspire action
Jyoti Arora in You Came Like Hope asserts, “it takes only a moment for the destiny to flip over.” The…
Casey Foundation report shows 16 percent of KY’s children are growing up in concentrated poverty
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service The economy may have bounced back from the Great Recession, but that hasn’t helped…
Terry Brooks: The ripple effect, or how one good thing might lead to . . .solving child poverty perhaps?
You remember, don’t you? You’re that twelve-year old kid on a hot summer day. You and your friends are exploring…