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Ending Monthly Child Tax Credits Pushed 3 Million Kids Into Poverty

Two new reports released this week show parents and kids are struggling without the payments. 

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The monthly tax-credit payments handed out by President Joe Biden’s rescue plan lifted millions of children out of poverty. Now their disappearance is sending them back.

Many American families are struggling to pay for basic necessities and over 3 million kids have been pushed below the poverty line, according to two new reports released this week.