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Thank you so much for joining our virtual pop-up Punchbowl News event with Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.). The conversation focused on the state of childhood poverty and the impact of the Child and Earned Income Tax Credit on low-income communities. Afterward, Samuel Hammond, Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy for the Niskanen Center, and Jessica Fulton, Vice President of Policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, joined Anna for a fireside conversation.

→ DelBene’s explanation of the impact of the Child Tax Credit on parents: “Those are incredibly important to helping families get by — and not only get by, but be in a place where they can thrive.”

→DelBene’s message to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who is indicating he doesn’t want to pass BBB quickly: “We absolutely have to do it by the end of the year. There’s a consequence to not getting it done earlier… The longer we wait, the longer we are not providing those resources."

→ DelBene’s message on the need to raise the debt limit: “We should’ve dealt with this earlier, when we had the last vote to extend the debt ceiling for a couple of months.”

The event also included a fireside chat with Samuel Hammond, director of Poverty and Welfare Policy at the Niskanen Center, and Jessica Fulton, vice president of policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

→ Hammond on the global history of child tax credits: “The United States is just playing catch up… This is a policy innovation in the U.S. context, but on the international stage it’s the norm."

→  Fulton responding to criticism that tax credit policies are poorly suited for today’s inflationary concerns: "If costs are rising for some families, this is precisely the time to make sure people have money in their pockets to make the payments they need to make.

A big thank you to the Rockefeller Foundation for partnering with us on this event. Watch the full conversation here. 

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