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Democrats push long-term move against child poverty

WASHINGTON — As the House prepares this week to approve a one-year move to fight child poverty as part of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package, leading Democrats and advocacy groups have begun jockeying to make the policy permanent. Reducing poverty by expanding the help that the government gives families with children “could be one of the greatest things we achieve in this decade,” ...

WASHINGTON — As the House prepares this week to approve a one-year move to fight child poverty as part of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package, leading Democrats and advocacy groups have begun jockeying to make the policy permanent.

Reducing poverty by expanding the help that the government gives families with children “could be one of the greatest things we achieve in this decade,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., plans to say in a speech Wednesday to a conference on poverty, according to an advance

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