Joe Manchin wants to add a work requirement to the child tax credit. Here’s what that would do – By Tami Luhby (CNN) / Oct 21 2021
(CNN) 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.
Manchin has not provided details on what such a mandate would entail but pointed out to CNN’s Dana Bash that “there’s no work requirement whatsoever.”
“Don’t you think, if we’re going to help the children, that the people should make some effort?” he said in a September appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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