A lot of people had the rug pulled out from under them

3.4 million children fell into poverty during that period

A reader wrote in on how the expiration of the child tax credit payments has impacted his family.

“So I will preface this with my family is middle class and doing okay and there are definitely people doing worse who were affected more,” he started and I certainly understand that impulse to qualify things. I do it myself. Often times when people write to…