The whole point of the child tax credit is to decrease child poverty - which it can cut in half.
Including a work requirement is basically making sure that some kids always stay on an unlevel playing field. It isn’t the kids’ fault that their parents are out of work.
The Times also ran a story about this network in Oct, 2020.
This, along with Facebook, and in some cases app-based communication systems, is what fills the void when local newspapers die or are killed when after being bought out.
ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom), created decades ago, is a collection of attorneys organized to work cases that roll back civil rights. It is fundamentalists’ ‘answer’ to the ACLU.
Here is a sampling of extremist efforts that ADF supports or advocates.
Not only has AT&T been propping up OAN, it appears they have been overpaying them as well.
And, despite everything that has happened and OAN’s clear contributions to the insurrection and pandemic disinfo, AT&T also appears to have renewed their contract again earlier this year.
Vitaly Korchevsky became a born-again evangelical in the Soviet Union in 1981, moved to the U.S. in 1989, and became pastor of a Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church in the Philadelphia suburbs.
The families that run Bethany Slavic Baptist Church in Sacramento operated an organized criminal real estate fraud scheme, contributing to the 2008 market crash.
One of its pastors, Adam Bondaruk, headed the Union of Pentecostal Christians of America.
From anti-abortion radicals, to anti-immigrant hate groups, the CNP unites the most extreme elements of the right wing universe with major funders and members of the Republican Party.
Its members played a key role in the Jan 6th plot to overthrow the election.
Over the last 40 years, CNP and its sister groups - ALEC and Heritage - have become a part of the Republican Party, driving (& radicalizing) voters to keep them in office.
They wrote the GOP’s voter suppression bills and tried to overthrow the election.
I feel like I should add that Liz Cheney voted against the Equality Act like 7 months ago. She voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and she voted to acquit Trump.