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Monday was tax day, and Senate Republicans are still weighing whether to pass or block a new bill reviving the extension of the child tax credit, which helped cut child poverty in half after during the pandemic. That extension expired, however, and child poverty soared almost immediately.
The new extension would not be as big as the first, but it would still improve the lives of more than 500,000 children in North Carolina, Ailen Arreaza, Executive Director of ParentsTogether Action, said in an interview last week.
For many parents, she said, the extension meant the difference between having to decide whether to pay bills or feed their children three meals a day.
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