Rachel M. Cohen

Congress has one month to extend a program that has fed millions of children.

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Sealing felony records is integral to a bill sitting on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

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When federal lawmakers expanded the child tax credit (CTC) in 2021 as part of President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief program, some 35 million parents across the US began receiving hundreds of dollars monthly. With the expanded credit, nonworking and extremely poor families were eligible for the credit’s full value for the first time since its passage in 1997, and the federal government increased the value of the subsidy itself — up to $3,600 per child. Almost 3 million children were lifted out of…