Michael Bennet: “Let me ask you what your thoughts would be about a universal Child Tax Credit of some sort that might provide a monthly…”

Today, an illness, a car accident, or a family emergency can lead to a family being evicted from their home and falling into a cycle of poverty.

The idea that we're living in a nation right now where our school teachers cannot afford to feed their families without going to the food bank to supplement their income says something really terrible about our priorities.

If you are interested in, and I’m sure everybody here is, in creating a set of incentives that actually will lead to better results, that will allow us to attack fraud and abuse and waste in these systems, that is not the system that we…

We need to renew the federal child tax credit to continue lifting families out of poverty.