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Urban Institute: Progress on Child Support Enforcement
by Harold Leibovitz, Communications Director of Assessing the New
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| Despite major investments in child support enforcement systems and
adoption of many new policies designed to improve collection efforts,
data from the last 20 years show a fairly flat rate of child support
collections. But there is some progress.
Rates of collection for never-married
women — who have grown from 18 to 45 percent of all single
women with children — have increased dramatically, from only 5
percent to 18 percent. Rates of collection for divorced women
have grown more slowly, from 36 percent to 43 percent.
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| Receipt of child support is critically important to families headed by
single mothers struggling for economic self-sufficiency and security. To find out
more about the status of child support enforcement over the past 20 years,
contact Harold Leibovitz at the Urban Institute, [email protected]. |
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ALTERNATIVES
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Alternatives is a publication of the Center for Policy Alternatives – a nonpartisan progressive public policy and leadership development center serving state legislators, state policy organizations, and state grassroots leaders. Alternatives is indexed in Urban Affairs Abstracts. ISSN #1070-3047
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