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Bill Clinton: It's a huge problem, billions of dollars a year. There are a lot of children who are forced onto welfare because their…

On the recordMarch 19, 1994
It's a huge problem, billions of dollars a year. There are a lot of children who are forced onto welfare because their absent fathers don't pay child support. And one of the things that we are trying to do is to make it easier to collect that child support, if fathers cross the State line, if they run away from their responsibility, to be able to have their paychecks have the child support taken out on the front end, to be able to deny the father certain credit privileges and other privileges until they pay the child support that they owe. I think we need a tough national system of child support enforcement and collection. That would do a lot to help families grow up with dignity and children without poverty. Mr. Jennings. Jamie, you asked that question for a reason, did you?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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