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"For the roughly $12 billion a year it cost to expand the child tax credit, we ensured stability for millions of Americans.
So what did we do? We killed the program, pushing millions of kids back into poverty and more than doubling the rate to 12.4 percent."

"First, avoiding much of this human catastrophe would have cost remarkably little money. Second, child poverty is, in the long run, very expensive for the nation as a whole: Americans who live in poverty as children grow up to become less healthy and productive adults than they should be."