van vanessa is with us in west virginia. they relied on it to put food on the table and they could see them disappear. reporter: absolutely. today is the day they are getting their last child tax credit for a while if congress does not act. this is critical for millions of states, especially west virginia, with one of the highest poverty rates in the country. we spoke to families here who say they hope that congress is listening. at breakfast, jesse and his sister madison can have whatever they want. but their mom, emily harden, says that wasn t always the case. . there were a lot of times where we didn t have, you know, more than a couple of dollars and had to kind of decide, like, i wasn t going to eat so that he