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Biden's goal to permanently boost support for families echoes a failed Nixon proposal from 50 years ago – will it take off this time?

  • Written by Leslie Lenkowsky, Senior Counsellor and Professor Emeritus of Practice in Philanthropic Studies, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, IUPUI
imageRaising children strains most household budgets.Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty Images

In July 2021, households with up to 88% of all U.S. children will get their first of six no-strings-attached monthly payment from the federal government.

The money comes from a temporary expansion of the child tax credit in the Biden administration’s...

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