‘Broke again’

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

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The Biden administration is expected to announce a new action to limit evictions as a federal eviction moratorium expires. But it’s unclear how many people that will help. And, why the expanded child tax credit may not be a silver bullet against poverty.

Nearly a year and a half into the pandemic, 28 percent of households are struggling to cover basic expenses. More than 11 million renters are behind on payments. One in seven parents are struggling to feed their families. This is all despite a raft of government interventions, including an expanded child tax credit approved in March.

The White House said the expanded child tax credit would cut child poverty by more than 40 percent. But that lofty expectation is crashing into the reality of debt for many people behind on rent and utility bills. Kyle Swenson reports on the potentially blunted impact of those payments for families living with debt, including moms such as Brittany Baker in Ohio.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:08.5	I'm Martin Powers.
0:10.6	It's Tuesday, August 3rd.
0:17.1	So today began as another day where people all over the country have been wondering, how
0:22.4	long before the eviction notice shows up.
0:25.6	The thinking was, it could be weeks or even days depending on where people live.
0:30.0	The federal ban on evictions expired this past Saturday.
0:33.9	And then, just as we were about to publish the show, our colleagues broke some news.
0:38.7	The Biden administration is expected to announce an action that will limit evictions.
0:42.9	It's not clear how many people this could help.
0:45.8	This all comes after intent pressure from liberal democrats in the house for Biden to
0:50.2	do something for the millions of renters who are still behind on payments.
0:55.2	And we're going to hear from one of them coming up.
1:07.7	People are scrambling, and it's not totally clear yet what this could mean for them.
1:12.5	The moratorium on evictions had been in place for 11 months of the pandemic.
1:17.6	The CDC said that it couldn't extend it further because of a Supreme Court ruling last
1:22.4	month.
1:23.4	That ruling said that for a ban to keep going, Congress would have to take action.
1:28.0	So there was a situation where President Biden was calling on Congress to act, but liberals
1:32.7	and Congress were saying that Biden could have signed an executive order.
1:36.6	This was Gene Spurling on Monday afternoon.
1:38.9	He heads up stimulus efforts for the White House.
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