RESULTS advocates for policies that increase access to affordable rental housing, support homeownership, and tackle the racial wealth divide in the U.S.
The expanded Child Tax Credit can combat Hunger and Homelessness if congress acts to expand it now! Find out how!
In 2021, Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) which cut child poverty by more than a third by expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to reach the lowest income families. ARPA also increased the benefit amount and created monthly payments. Those monthly CTC payments helped families put food on the table, pay the rent, and keep the lights on.
This page will be regularly updated as Congress debates the current reconciliation package. Check back for the latest.
Farewell remarks and reflections on the work ahead, from Blake Turpin, our recent Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow who helped develop a long-term housing and tax policy campaign.
Clouds were building and it looked like it could rain any minute on a warm Tuesday in mid-June, but advocate Maurice Gayetay was not deterred. He was on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., waiting in the security line to speak directly to congressional staff representing his district. He had come all the way from Rhode Island to share his story and deliver his message to Congress.
Learn details on why a renter’s tax credit is needed to help low-income Americans struggling with the high cost of rent. Danielle Bautista, a 2022 RESULTS Fellow and member of the RESULTS San Diego group, discusses California’s renter’s tax credit and how 2021’s expanded Child Tax Credit improved housing stability. View the recording and the slides (PDF version/PPT version) from the webinar.
Use our current U.S. poverty laser talks in your upcoming lobby meetings, letters to the editor, and e-mails to Congress.
Guest Speakers: Phil Tegeler, president and executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC); Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
April 2022 National Webinar Recording
April 2022 National Webinar Slides (PPT version)
April 2022 National Webinar Captioning Transcript
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