U.S. Sen Herb Kohl Not Making Any Sense


	U.S. Sen Herb Kohl Not Making Any Sense

laryholland

3-24-2007 1:43 AM

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child support, title iv-d, budget deficit reduction act, bdra, cse

laryholland says:

GUEST COLUMN: Reverse child support cuts
By U.S. SEN. HERB KOHL
March 22, 2007

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                                              Child support payments are often the only rope holding a child above the poverty line. Now imagine that the successful federal program binding that rope is cut — so severely that one Wisconsin community must resort to holding a raffle to fill the hole left in their budget.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.couleenews.com/articles/2007/03/22/opinion/06kohl.txt"><DIV>The child support enforcement program collects outstanding payments and funds other activities aimed at getting child support to the families who need it. The cut left thousands of Wisconsin’s children, relying on child support payments for basic necessities, dangling by a thread.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.couleenews.com/articles/2007/03/22/opinion/06kohl.txt"><DIV>Restoring these cuts is the right thing to do. It will help our state; it will help our counties. Most importantly, however, it will help hardworking, single-parent Wisconsin families.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/80F921C2-B27B-4132-B69C-8EE5FF48D94D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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