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Can monthly cash payments cut child poverty by nearly half?

by Ashraf Khalil
| May 19, 2021 12:06 AM

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The check won't arrive until mid-July, but Katrina Peters already knows what she’ll do with her Child Tax Credit payments. The 20-year-old mother of three has applied to work as a driver with a food delivery app, and the extra cash is earmarked for repairing, registering and insuring her car.

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