Early Education Non-Profit Promotes Child Tax Credit Awareness Day
Beginning July 15, Most Families Will Begin Receiving Monthly Payments of $250-$300 Per Child
Boston, MA [June 21, 2021] — Neighborhood Villages, a Boston-based non-profit working to realize a future in which all families have access to affordable, high-quality early education and care, today promoted Child Tax Credit Awareness Day.
Starting July 15, most families will begin receiving a monthly payment of $300 per child under 6 and $250 per child between 6-17 through the end of 2021. Approximately 39 million households will automatically receive the new Child Tax Credit. The payments are another tool that can be used to help all families access early education and care for their children.
For more information, visit childtaxcredit.gov.
The following is a statement from Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, Co-President and Chief Strategy Officer of Neighborhood Villages:
“Early education and care is foundational to helping every child reach their full potential and leveling the playing field for working parents. Yet, the exorbitant costs prevent far too many families from being able to afford the care solutions they need. The Child Tax Credit is a tool to help bridge that gap. It’s why we want to make sure every family knows that these payments will begin in less than a month, and to urge Congress to extend them beyond 2021 as President Biden has proposed.
This will not solve the child care crisis in our country. For that, we need transformational reform that treats child care as a public good that should be available to everyone, no matter their income or their zip code. But the Child Tax Credit will bring immediate and necessary relief. It is some welcome news to parents who need it after an incredibly difficult year.”
ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES
Founded in 2017 by Lauren Kennedy and Sarah Muncey, Neighborhood Villages is a Boston-based systems-change non-profit that advocates for early education and care policy reform and implements scalable solutions that address the biggest challenges facing providers and the families who rely on them. They show systems-change in action to push policy forward. Neighborhood Village specializes in ground-level, strategic interventions aimed at building the capacity of the early education and care sector. Just this month, Neighborhood Villages partnered with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to launch the first comprehensive COVID-19 pooled testing program for early education providers and children in the country.
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