
Joe Manchin wants to add a work requirement to the child tax credit. Here's what that would do.
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Millions of children are set to be lifted out of poverty this year because the Democrats temporarily beefed up the child tax credit in the last coronavirus relief package.
Extending the enhanced credit is included in Democrats' massive social spending bill. But Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia -- whose support is needed to pass the legislation -- has said he wants to once again require parents to work in order to qualify for the credit, a shift that could exclude millions of the nation's poorest families.
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A slew of Democratic-led states asked a federal court on Monday to lift the Trump administration’s freeze on nearly $7 billion in public education money, accusing the Department of Education of unlawfully locking up critical funds Congress set aside to help low-income and immigrant students, among others.