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The COVID-19 relief bill working its way through Congress is full of big ideas to help people. But there s one idea that s so big, it was politically unthinkable not that long ago.
President Biden and Democratic lawmakers want to fight child poverty by giving U.S. families a few hundred dollars every month for every child in their household no strings attached. A kind of child allowance.
If this proposal survives the wrangling in Congress and makes it to Biden s desk, experts say it could cut child poverty nearly in half.
The idea even has some bipartisan support. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah has pitched a smaller version of a child allowance.
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