Washington, April 15 -- Congresswoman Kristen McDonald Rivet issued the following press release:
Today, with the support of a broad coalition of endorsers, Congresswoman Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) introduced the Working Parents Tax Relief Act, a game-changing tax cut that would return to working parents up to an additional $5,500 per child under age four and lift hundreds of thousands of families out of poverty.
Today, it is more expensive than ever to raise a family. With costs like housing, health care, and groceries rising across the board, and the cost of child care alone reaching an average of $28,000 per year (https://fortune.com/2026/04/12/cost-of-raising-child-in-us-2026/), Congress needs to pass solutions that make it easier...