The Antipoverty Effects of the Expanded Child Tax Credit Across States: Where Were the Historic Reductions Felt?
This policy report, released by the The Hamilton Project at The Brookings Institution, investigates state variation in the effects of the 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit on child poverty. It examines differences in these effects by state-level cost of living and by differences in state-level poverty rates. The results show that while the expanded Child Tax Credit resulted in substantial reductions in poverty across the board, poverty reductions were the greatest in those states with relatively lower costs of living and with higher pre-expansion poverty rates.
Report issued by The Hamilton Project at The Brookings Institution. Authored by Bradley Hardy, affiliated CPSP researcher and Georgetown faculty, Sophie Collyer, Research Director, and Christopher Wimer, Director.
The Hamilton Project, an economic initiative at the Brookings Institution, produces evidence-based policy proposals on how to create a growing economy benefiting more Americans and provides a platform for a broad range of leading economic thinkers to introduce innovative and pragmatic policy options into the national debate.
