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On the recordMarch 24, 1994
would the gentlewoman also agree that collecting from fathers who are not in the home, who do not have jobs, is almost an impossibility and so a jobs program is an absolute necessity for a large percentage of the fathers involved here?
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Major Owens
New York

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Discussing the challenges of child support collection from unemployed fathers.

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