WASHINGTON— Democrats are poised to pass a significant—but temporary—expansion of the child tax credit as part of President Biden’s coronavirus relief package. Here’s a guide to the credit and the proposals to expand it.
What is the child tax credit?
It is a tax break for having and raising children.
Currently, parents can subtract up to $2,000 per child from their income taxes,… Read more »
The 24-year-old Child Tax Credit was designed to aid families with the costs of raising children. But as the economic turbulence from the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect millions of households, Democrats want to shake up that long-standing tax benefit by making it more generous and changing the way families receive it.
The proposed overhaul would expand the Child Tax… Read more »
WASHINGTON — The early weeks of the Biden administration have brought a surge of support, in the White House and across party lines in Congress, for what could be the most ambitious effort in a generation to reduce child poverty.
The plans vary in duration, design and the amount they would add to the federal debt, but they share a new and central premise in the policy debate over how… Read more »
House Democratic leaders will unveil legislation Monday that would give families at least $3,000 per child, advancing a key provision in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package.
Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Richard Neal is leading the crafting of the legislation for the stimulus package and will introduce the enhanced Child Tax Credit bill… Read more »
SEATTLE -- All across Western Washington, people turned out on Memorial Day to remember and honor the service members who gave their lives for the county.
"Honoring those that served before us, honoring those that served and made it, twice a year we get to do this so it's pretty important," said Douglas Russell, referring to Memorial Day for the fallen and Veteran's Day for all… Read more »
A week after the national farm bill failed to get through the U.S. House of Representatives, local legislators say that leading up to another vote they’re focusing on funding for rural development, crop insurance, nutrition and conservation.
The bill failed 198-213.
Another vote on the bill is expected in late June, Lou Wasson, a spokesman for Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, said in an email.… Read more »
Scott Peters had never played Mario Kart before, but he sure as hell wasn’t going to lose to Darrell Issa.
Peters, a Democrat from San Diego who represents California’s 52nd Congressional District, battled Issa, a Republican from the neighboring 49th District, at last year’s Comic-Con. Peters had been pretty good at Pac-Man back in the day, during law school in New York in the 1980s, to… Read more »
While it may get no further than the U.S. Senate, legislation that would restore Obama-era open internet rules, otherwise known as net neutrality, should move forward.
Senate Democrats, joined by one Republican, filed a discharge petition that will force a vote on legislation that would overturn Federal Communication Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s move last year to scrap net neutrality… Read more »
WHEN I heard that House Republicans were looking to expand a bipartisan job training and employment pilot program I spearheaded and that was signed into law by President Obama, I was pleasantly surprised. Speaker Paul Ryan even called it “the precise thing we need to do to get people from welfare to work.”
Once I reviewed the text of the recently released Farm Bill, it became obvious… Read more »
Bill Radke talks to Congresswoman Suzan DelBene about immigration, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and the upcoming midterm elections.
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