How To Save the Child Tax Credit — and Build Back Better

Joel Dodge
GEN
Published in
6 min readDec 17, 2021

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Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is in deep trouble. Negotiations with pivotal fiftieth Senate vote Joe Manchin ran into a ditch this week, effectively shelving the bill until 2022 at best.

Mixed reports have suggested that Manchin particularly objects to extending the Biden Child Tax Credit. This is alarming, given that this year’s reinvention of the tax…

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