First Lady Jill Biden and actress Jennifer Garner are heading to Alabama to tour the Jasper Area Service Center in Jasper, Alabama, and visit the YWCA of Central Alabama in Birmingham. According to Al.com, the visit is set to explain how the recently passed federal stimulus plan will lower child poverty. It is part of the “Help is Here” tour planned by the Biden Administration, promoting the American Rescue Plan.
According to the White House, part of the plan addresses childhood poverty and works toward the legislation’s goal of cutting childhood poverty in half, according to the White House. The $1.9 trillion relief package looks to expand the federal child tax credit for one year, a change that would expand benefits to more families. The package includes an allowance for most working and middle-class families to receive an expanded child tax credit worth up to $3,600 for each child under the age of 6 and $3,000 for each child ages 6 through 17. The administration claims the credit will lift millions of children out of poverty.
1 in 6 children in the United States live in poverty. If passed, the American Rescue Plan will expand the child tax credit and cut the child poverty rate in half. pic.twitter.com/firxhvvUky
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 11, 2021
Millions of Americans, including millions of children, don’t have enough food to eat. Some, because of the economic effects of COVID, are experiencing hunger for the very first time in their lives.
— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) March 22, 2021
