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Child Support

As the House prepares to vote on rolling back the "Great Society" welfare programs of the 1960's and to give states the power to run their own assistance programs, one state-based program -- child support enforcement - is likely to become a federal one. NPR's Peter Kenyon examines this exception to the devolutionary trend.

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