“That rates of child poverty increased in 2022 is disappointing and concerning,” says Lisa Gennetian, a professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy who researches a variety of areas concerning child poverty from income security and stability. There is room and need for re-opening policy and political conversations about an expanded child tax credit as a complementary strategy to bolstering child care and related anti-poverty investments including the earned income tax credit; so supporting families in all realms of work and caregiving.” Lisa Gennetian is an applied economist at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy whose research straddles a variety of areas concerning child poverty from income security and stability to early care and education with a focus on how…