Letters and Correspondence
Opposing Child Tax Credit Restriction
Kevin Lindsey (Former Staff), Wendy Cervantes (Former Staff)
Children of Immigrants Poverty & Family Economics Tax Policy
First Focus Campaign for Children sent this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives on July 24, 2014 urging a no vote on H.R.4935, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) Improvement Act. This bill would take the CTC away from 5.5 million children, including 4.5 million citizen children, who have immigrant parents that file their taxes with an IRS-issued Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. With child poverty at a 20-year high, the letter urges Congress to take proactive steps to reduce child poverty instead of taking this proven poverty reduction method away from millions of children.