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How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrow

  • Written by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Professor of Education and Social Policy; Director of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrowKeeping kids above the poverty line contributes to their stability in adulthood.Maskot/DigitalVision via Getty Images

As part of the latest COVID-19 relief package, the federal government has expanded the child tax credit and made it available to all families with children except those with the highest incomes. Families will get US$3,000 per kid...

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