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Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., spoke with local parents, educators and social service providers Thursday about the economic challenges facing Puebloans because of the pandemic, and how the child tax credit he has long championed could have a long-reaching impact on lifting families out of poverty.
“I just don’t accept that it’s an inevitable outcome of our economic system or our society or our democracy that we should have some of the highest childhood poverty rates in the industrialized world, and that we shouldn’t have economic mobility in this country,” Bennet said after the roundtable at the Boys and Girls Club’s East Side Clubhouse at Risley International Academy of Innovation.