The historic expansion of the Child Tax Credit under the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan offers the promise of dramatically reducing child poverty in the United States. This temporary expansion increases benefit levels, reaches children previously excluded, and delivers more regular payments.

In this webinar hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty, Elaine Maag from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Sarah Halpern-Meekin from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Megan Curran from CPSP examined the expanded Child Tax Credit and related components of the American Rescue Plan, discussed projections for the policy’s potential impact on poverty, and looked at the challenges of delivering the credit to families who need it the most.

About the Institute for Research on Poverty

IRP is an independent, multidisciplinary, and nonpartisan research institution within the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. IRP is dedicated to producing and disseminating rigorous evidence to inform policies and programs to combat poverty, inequality, and their effects in the United States through national research, training, and events grounded in extensive collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.