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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: ABQ, New Mexico
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An IRS rule change in 1987 required taxpayers to list dependents' Social Security numbers for the first time. As a result, about 7 million children — a tenth of all dependent children in the country at the time — "disappeared."
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