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The Census Bureau released its latest statistics on poverty in America on Monday .
Ruben Navarrette: Childhood poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022 .
He says Congress ended the expanded Child Tax Credit , which was passed as part of the American Rescue Plan , in 2021 .
The program was only designed to be in place for a year , with monthly checks starting in June and the remaining months of credits being applied to taxes at the end of 2021 .
It’s cold comfort to have proved that a child allowance can cut poverty, but it’s all we have at this point.” We knew this was coming and yet it still hurts to know that millions of children are now worse off than they were. Worse still is that they will remain impoverished when we know that there’s another option, thanks to the choices of our supposed leaders in Washington ..
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