Low-Income Children in Rural Areas Face Cut in Child Tax Credit if Recovery Act Improvement Expires

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ state by state analysis of the impact of ending the recently improved child care tax credit on low-income families finds the burden will fall heavily on rural areas where nearly 3.3 million low-income children live.  If Congress allows the tax credit improvement to expire, a family with two children in which a parent is working at a full-time, minimum wage job will see its child credit fall from $1,725 to $248.