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Expanding Program Would Reduce Hardship, Improve Equity
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FDR’s Social Security lifted many senior Americans out of poverty — now Biden’s child tax credit could do the same for children.
On February 25, 2021, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled its people out of poverty as it is defined internationally.
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