Editorial Board
Congress Should Give Families More Credit
A modest, bipartisan bill would improve working families’ lives -- and Washington’s image.
Lawmakers also learn by doing.
Photographer: Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/Boston Globe via Getty ImagesCongress returns to Washington this week to a meat grinder: In short order, members must raise the debt ceiling, pass a budget (to avoid a government shutdown) and deliver emergency relief to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. So it might seem unrealistic to suggest that they strike a bipartisan deal on child-care tax credits.
Yet this is precisely the kind of small but meaningful legislation that would show the American public that Congress is, in fact, capable of doing something -- and, not incidentally, it would measurably improve the lives of millions of American families.