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?
Discussing the challenges of child support collection from unemployed fathers.
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I ask my colleagues to pardon my ignorance, but I am not a lawyer and I have not been impressed with the legal gymnastics of the Committee on the Judiciary hearings
You have said that the plans that are being developed by the White House indicate they want to focus in on the youngest welfare recipients, which means that the ones coming in now, the youngest ones, would have the youngest children.
Is there any scientific evidence that supports their reasoning there in terms of the taking away out of the home, or they are saying they are going to cut them off in 2 years? It means a woman with a new baby, the baby is 2 years old…
You have not even mentioned health care, the fact that after they get off AFDC, they cannot get Medicaid, they do not have health care.
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