Cash for Kids Comes to the United States

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The federal government currently spends $16.5 billion a year on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or welfare.
48% : Things are even more complicated for people who are not filing taxes: They need to use an online portal to get the cash, requiring them to have an email account, good command of English, and access to a computer, because the site is not mobile-friendly.
43% : Other advocates told me they struggled to help families who owed taxes, or would not take any benefit for fear of being deported, or had complicated and informal custody arrangements, or did not have a stable address, or were afraid of filling out any forms for the IRS, or were convinced that signing up for the child tax credit would put their other benefits at risk.
38% : But an estimated 4 million to 8 million eligible children are at risk of missing out, because their parents or guardians do not need to file taxes or are not filing taxes -- and because they might not even know the complicated, obscure-sounding, and scarcely advertised policy exists.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.