And here some people said to me, well, why would you do that? Why? Because I wanted to have it. So we did it one year. And what we proved, you know, We cut child poverty in half [with the child tax credit]. Yeah. Lowered the hunger rate at 25%. It worked. It worked overwhelmingly well. And the naysayers go to work that they would just dog it and use the money for drugs. (36:15–36:21)
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Asserts that the child tax credit reduced child poverty by 50%.
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