Pilkauskas: Child Tax Credit "lost in the wash of stimulus money"

Natasha Pilkauskas, Los Angeles Times: "It’s baffling to me that it (the expanded Child Tax Credit) wasn’t more popular."

The enhanced payment may have been lost in the wash of stimulus money Americans received at the height of the pandemic, Pilkauskas said. Some recipients may have thought that the money was part of the broader, temporary stimulus efforts, rather than a child-specific benefit that they could factor into their budget.

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Natasha Pilkauskas

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Pilkauskas is a social demographer who studies the social safety net, children's living arrangements, and economic insecurity. Pilkauskas' work considers how social policy might improve the developmental and life trajectories of children living in poverty.

• Domestic policy
• Poverty and social policy
• Natasha Pilkauskas
• Los Angeles Times
• child tax credit
• child poverty