Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Why is the child tax credit good economic policy? (with Wendy Bach)
45 minutes Posted Aug 24, 2021 at 7:00 am.
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Everything you need to know about what the expanded child tax credit actually is, why it’s good policy, and how it will impact people’s lives. 


Wendy Bach is a Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a nationally recognized expert in poverty law. 


Twitter: @wendyabach


Biden’s child tax credit is a step away from a discriminatory system: https://qz.com/2034199/how-does-the-us-child-tax-credit-work/


Two-thirds of people now receive monthly benefit checks: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/07/19/two-thirds-of-people-now-receive-monthly-benefit-checks/ 


The time tax: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/how-government-learned-waste-your-time-tax/619568/ 


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