Both Harris and Trump support raising the child tax credit. Who would qualify?

For all its economic prosperity, childhood poverty remains pervasive in the United States.

Never before in a presidential election cycle has there been so much discussion of the child tax credit—a tool many Democrats and Republicans have endorsed as a way to lift children and young families out of poverty.

Just three years ago, child poverty rates fell significantly when President Joe Biden’s administration raised the child tax credit and made even the poorest families eligible.