How Hillary Clinton can beef up her child poverty plan

Liberals must stop predicating their benefits on work

Hillary Clinton can do even better.
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Hillary Clinton finally has a poverty policy that has something to do with poverty! After previous attempts that bundled a bunch of largely unrelated policy into a sort of poverty-adjacent program, Clinton announced Tuesday something that will actually help the poor: making the child tax credit more refundable.

I'll explain in more detail below, but the basic idea is to give more money to poor parents of children, especially ones under 5 years old. It's an encouraging idea, but still a limited one. Until Clintonite liberals can admit that the basic problem of poverty is people being unable to work, they will never be able to attack poverty in a serious way.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.