A poverty policy expert explains how Biden's Child Tax Credit could change America's broken relationship with welfare

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : If our leaders can successfully communicate the benefits of this program to American voters, the success of Child Tax Credits could transform our understanding of government assistance for the 21st century.
62% : In the middle-income brackets "we have benefits across the board just for the elderly, Social Security and Medicare.
52% : "We have what I like to call welfare for the wealthy at the top, delivered mostly through tax expenditures and through the tax code," Bach said.
51% : Bach hopes that the automatic nature of the Child Tax Credit will inspire reformers to make welfare easier to access, "in a way that's autonomy-enhancing, that's respectful, that's easy, that promotes the ability of individuals to manage their own priorities and decide what they need to spend their money on."
49% : In the social safety net, recipients are often considered guilty until proven innocent.
15% : When President Bill Clinton famously brought about the "end of welfare as we know it" in the 1990s by slashing government benefits under the guise of "welfare reform," assistance programs became a source of shame and ridicule.

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