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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
imageKeeping 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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