>"Americans are living through the best labor market in half a century. Pay for low-wage workers is up. Why can’t the left take credit?"

"The Center on Poverty and Social Policy’s research has helped to ensure that the poorest third of children in the United States receive the full benefits of the Child Tax Credit."

"From Ronald Reagan, to George H. W. Bush, to Newt Gingrich, to George W. Bush, to Donald Trump, the child tax credit has a long history in Republican policy and politics."

Seniors on a fixed income, however, are buying less and eating less healthy as prices rise beyond their already small food budgets.

>"Why do Republicans oppose a Democratic policy that would boost rural America?"

It would seem that moving on to Biden-Romney legislation for a near-universal refundable tax credit for kids—anti-child poverty, pro-family—would be a good bipartisan effort after the COVID relief package goes through via reconciliation.