Bill Clinton: “If all the parents in this country paid the child support they owe, we…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996

If all the parents in this country paid the child support they owe, we could move 800,000 women and children off the welfare rolls tomorrow.

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The President's Radio Address

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