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Hillary Clinton has launched a vision that she calls "Youth Opportunity Agenda". Within the powerful agenda is contained the seeds for unprecedented federal spending and power. As part of this vision, Ms. Clinton seeks to "restore funding for child support enforcement to make sure that fathers do their part to support their children. But she will also reward responsible fatherhood by ensuring that every dollar of child support payments directly benefits children and expanding the EITC to give fathers more economic opportunities to do right by their kids."

On the surface, what Ms. Clinton proposes appears to be visionary. She desires to restore and enforce, to ensure and to expand. That is language for spending more money. "Hillary believes that fathers who have the financial resources must pay their full and fair share of child support." The text reasons, "Child support payments lift more than one million children out of poverty each year and enable 300,000 families to leave TANF rolls. Child support payments can represent half of these men's income, and can provide a strong incentive to work in the underground economy." The statement made by the campaign is a myth. Then, Ms. Clinton proposes to reverse "deep cuts" to child support enforcement that we made through "the Bush Administration". She projects that $11 billion will be lost over the next 10 years because of these "cuts". She will make certain that states and counties have the resources necessary for collection through more federal funding. Ms. Clinton will also "encourage states to take more realistic and cooperative approaches to managing arrears, so that fathers leaving prison are not immediately saddled with unrealistic payment obligations." Could this also be for parents that are arrested for non-payment of child support through the federal Bradley Amendment in the first place?

Ms. Clinton's policy also states that she wants to ensure that every dollar of child support goes to the children through "incentives" and "support", doubtless through more funding with more rules and guidelines. The federal government currently maintains that every dollar of child support is going to child support right now. So what's up with this need for incentives? The dirty secret is that 4% of child support gets lost in the money stream through mismanagement of the system even though every dollar is sent for the children.
She holds that her reform will increase child support payments and result in administrative savings.

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