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Expanding the Child Tax Credit: Lessons From a Short-lived Pandemic Policy - Conversable Economist

A "child allowance," in the policy lingo, is a policy that provides a per-child payment to every family with children. The US has for some decades now has a "child tax credit," which has reduced taxes and paid refunds to low-income families with children. But during the pandemic, this program was expanded temporarily in a