Cities Could Slash Child Poverty With Tax Credits, Analysis Finds
Posted by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity on November 11, 2025
After Congress allowed the expanded Child Tax Credit to lapse at the end of 2021, more than a dozen states have implemented their own Child Tax Credits. A new report by the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) uses data from 14 cities to show how local Child Tax Credits could augment federal and state efforts to reduce child poverty by as much as 50 percent.
In this Spotlight Exclusive, we interview Kamolika Das, one of the authors of the study and the local policy director at ITEP, about the new analysis. “I just think the timing is obviously so critical right now for considering these sorts of policies, given that the federal government has been retreating from a lot of these anti-poverty measures,” Das said. “We know that local governments for a long time have been laboratories of innovation and it makes sense for them to step up.”
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