Add your org's name & tell MN policymakers: Create a state Child Tax Credit in 2023
Action coordinated by: Children’s Defense Fund-Minnesota, Legal Services Advocacy Project, Minnesota Budget Project, & Minnesota Catholic Conference 

Minnesota policymakers have an exciting opportunity to ensure families and children have what they need to thrive by creating a state Child Tax Credit (CTC) in 2023.

You may know that in 2021, federal policymakers temporarily expanded the federal CTC with an amazing impact on improving family well-being. That expansion reduced child poverty nationwide by an estimated 40% and narrowed racial, income, and geographic disparities in economic security. This transformational policy ensured that during tough economic times, families had more resources to afford groceries, rent, diapers, and other basics.

A Minnesota CTC would build on this federal success. Minnesota should join a growing number of states keeping the momentum going for huge drops in child poverty.

The time is now.

Sign your organization on this letter to state policymakers today, urging them to step up for our families and children by creating a state Child Tax Credit - modeled on the federal expanded CTC’s success – in 2023.

The letter below, including organizational signatories, will be shared with Governor Tim Walz and members of the Minnesota Legislature at key moments in the policy debate.

Use this link to view the letter as a PDF as well as to see who has already signed on. (Signatories last updated 4/7/23.)
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Letter text:

We know states can build on the dramatic reduction in child poverty and material hardship that came with the temporary expansion in 2021 of the federal Child Tax Credit. For example, a Minnesota Child Tax Credit of $1,080 for children under age six and $900 for older children would reduce child poverty in Minnesota by 25%. (State Child Tax Credits and Child Poverty: A 50-State Analysis, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and Center on Poverty and Social Policy).

In an effort to reduce the short- and long-term harm of poverty and dismantle Minnesota’s deep racial disparities in financial well-being, our organizations are aligned around a permanent, income-targeted, inclusive Minnesota Child Tax Credit with the following design principles:
  • Fully refundable,
  • No minimum earnings requirement to qualify for the full value of credit,
  • Providing a set dollar amount of credit for each child, with a larger credit amount for younger children,
  • Indexing the credit amount and income phase-out level annually to inflation to ensure that its effectiveness does not erode over time,
  • Including families with members using ITINs,
  • Working towards providing the credit in periodic installments.
The documented success of the expanded federal Child Tax Credit demonstrates the huge potential that state CTCs can have for reducing poverty and racial disparities, and improving family budgets and the lifetime prospects of the state’s most important resource: our children.

We look forward to continuing conversations with policymakers to build support for what could truly be a transformational policy for Minnesota’s children and families.

Sincerely, 
Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota 
Legal Services Advocacy Project 
Minnesota Budget Project 
Minnesota Catholic Conference 
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