The Daily Beast: Joe Manchin Doomed the Child Tax Credit. Can States Save Kids Instead?

A 2019 report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy suggested state-level CTCs are also a means for reducing “a myriad of inequities that are exacerbated by the tax codes in many states,” including by rectifying existing racial inequities in state tax policy and lifting tax burdens off of the poor.

“​​State lawmakers… do not need to wait for congressional action to make major strides in lifting thousands to millions of children within their states out of poverty,” the report read.