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Rosa DeLauro: “This is a lifeline, Lawrence, for middle class families, and yes, and these are not Gene Sperling’s ideas or mine or…”

On the recordMay 17, 2021
This is a lifeline, Lawrence, for middle class families, and yes, and these are not Gene Sperling’s ideas or mine or numbers. This is coming from the National Academy of Sciences, Columbia University who tell us that the effect of this is to lift one-half of our kids out of poverty.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut
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msnbc.com

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Rosa DeLauro highlights the impact of the child tax credit on reducing child poverty.

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