… pandemic, helped keep afloat millions of small businesses and folks that were the first to have to close and the last to get to reopen. It was a lifeline with The child tax credit... lifted half of all children who were in poverty, out of poverty for a period of time. We have to figure out a way to restore the child tax credit after a string of horrendous acts of gun violence. (34:01–34:12)
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Asserts that the child tax credit temporarily reduced child poverty by half.
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