
America, let's make families great again
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Families are one of the building blocks of our society. The Trump administration could help working families a great deal by strengthening the tax code and Child Tax Credit.
Pastor Tony Lowden is the lead pastor and founder of Jabez Ministries. He previously served as pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., where President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter were members. Lowden has held various leadership roles, including director of Faith and Justice Initiative for Georgia’s governor’s office and founder of STONE Academy for at-risk children.
I also ask, particularly in this time of falling birth rates, whether it helps men and women form families. Of course, there are many dimensions and factors at play, many issues on which we have to ask this question. One of these is government policy, and some might rightly point out there are more influential factors than what government does. That’s true, and it would be a mistake to see government as the sole cause of or the only solution to all the challenges facing working families in America.