But there’s also a sobering feature: The parents of an estimated 910,000 California children would lose the credit because their child has at least one undocumented immigrant parent without a Social Security number, according to an analysis by several research groups including Washington’s Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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Senior Data Analyst
Joe Hughes
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