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Id love to see a child tax credit thats $5,000 per child.

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A higher tax credit would help working families.

The program helped reducechildhood poverty.

To help offset financial pressures, the Child Tax Credit is a tool that helps parents.

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A tax credit increase to $5,000 could make a significant impact and benefit families in multiple ways.

Since 1997, the CTC was designed and further modified to help low to middle-income families, McFarlane said.

Inflation is another concern experts have with increasing the Child Tax Credit.

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The spending generated by those credits would likely be stimulative for growth and potentially for inflation.

Like every other policy choice, modifications to the child tax credit comes with trade-offs.

Burns said the following information is needed before determining the impact.

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