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Dead Beats

Robert speaks with Jerry Fay, the deputy commissioner for the Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue and director of the Child support Enforcement Division, about the state program to track down dead-beat parents. these parents owe child support and the greatest offenders have their faces on "wanted" posters, in the media and on the internet. He says 100,000 parents have arrearages. The wanted posters have been more successful that the internet in nabbing deadbeat parents.

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