The original child tax credit was passed in 1997 by a Republican-controlled Congress. Both Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Baltimore grew up in poverty themselves. The child ...

The new administration wants to slash aid for health, food and housing, but many of those programs now reach the struggling working class he is courting.

The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program and Fremont County Extension Office will be sponsoring free individual income tax preparation during February and March. The service is available for any age ...

President Donald Trump’s lofty agenda to tackle immigration, cut taxes across the board and reduce federal spending means Congress will need to find creative ways to fund his agenda while scaling back ...

Bipartisan collaboration will be necessary for Evers to accomplish his priorities, but Republican lawmakers were mostly ...

With President Trump’s return, the future of the child tax credit is uncertain. Currently capped at $2,000 per child under ...

I recently received an email from Gov. Kathy Hochul in which she told me and several million others about her Affordability Agenda that she unveiled in her recent State of the State address. In the ...

Both bills would offer private schoolers and home-schoolers up to $5,000 — one through a tax credit and the other through ...

Featuring [Moderator] Courtney Joslin, Resident Fellow and Senior Manager, Project for Women and Families, R Street Institute ...

That's one of the big takeaways from POLITICO Playbook’s First 100 Days: Tax Reform event, where a trio of lawmakers ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $252 billion budget plan provides a one-time $1,200 bonus to pregnant welfare moms when they have a baby.

At this time, the child tax credit hands families a $2,000 discount on their tax bill for every child under the age of 17 ...