Low-income families in rural areas to benefit in first year of proposed Child Tax Credit expansion The families of roughly 2.5 million children under age 17 in rural communities would see an increase in their child tax credit benefit within the first year of a proposed bipartisan three-year expansion. Here are the numbers by state: Texas 228,000 North Carolina 139,000 Ohio 129,000 Georgia 128,000 Mississippi 116,000 Kentucky 104,000 Missouri 99,000 Tennessee 86,000 Michigan 85,000 Arkansas 81,000 Oklahoma 81,000 Indiana 77,000 Alabama 72,000 Illinois 67,000 New York 66,000 Louisiana 63,000 Pennsylvania 63,000 South Carolina 59,000 Wisconsin 59,000 Iowa 54,000 Minnesota 51,000 New Mexico 51,000 Florida 46,000 California 38,000 Washington 37,000 West Virginia 36,000 Idaho 34,000 Oregon 34,000 Arizona 31,000 Nebraska 31,000 Colorado 29,000 South Dakota 26,000 Maine 20,000 Alaska 14,000 Wyoming 14,000 Hawaii 13,000 New Hampshire 13,000 Nevada 12,000 Vermont 10,000 Connecticut 5,000 * Authors did not include Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Utah and Virginia due to lack of reliable data on metropolitan/non-metropolitan ** Delaware, District of Columbia, New Jersey and Rhode Island are entirely metro areas Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities https://www.cbpp.org/blog/house-passed-bipartisan-tax-bills-child-tax-credit-expansion-would-especially-help-children