United States: Expanded Child Tax Credit improved Parents' Mental Health

Keep in mind, this enhanced program lasted only six months (if I’m doing my math correctly) and resulted in these mental health improvements, on top of all the other benefits of not having a country full of starving children. All it took was six months. Imagine what a properly compassionate social safety net would do for everyone?

The republicans who prevented the program from being extended have once again shown a crass lack of compassion and empathy. They should be ashamed of themselves, though of course they won’t be.

Think of the children! Oh wait, this was their opportunity and they chose to be unsympathetic assholes.

To me this reads like most parents in the US make so little or are working so much that more money can increase their health and wellbeing. Wierd how the economy is designed to keep you in an unhealthy place /s