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Noon Wednesday: Lifting Children Out Of Poverty

By Marisa Wojcik | Here & Now

March 11, 2021

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An historic $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, passed by Congress Wednesday, includes additional benefits for families with children. Tim Smeeding, a UW-Madison professor of Public Affairs and Economics, and Tamarine Cornelius, a research analyst at Kids Forward, discuss these measures and their impacts on children in Wisconsin.

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