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Child Tax Credit: Manchin stuns West Virginians
Many Americans were left stunned, when, during a private meeting earlier this year, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia explained that he was having trouble supporting an extension of the child tax credit after hearing from a constituent who was convinced her “crackhead” daughter was spending the dividend on drugs.
In less than six months, the expanded child tax credit — monthly payments that have been going out to families who make less than $150,000 a year since July — has cut childhood hunger by one-third nationwide, and helped lift at least 3 million American children out of poverty in the first month alone. If the credit were extended, Urban Institute analysts say, the benefit would be even greater, reducing child poverty by a staggering 40 percent in America — the most dramatic improvement in a generation.
But as it stands now, the expansion is set to expire at…
