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Before the establishment of this act, child support offices had little reason to establish paternity for children in poor urban areas, said Ronald B. Mincy '74 a senior program officer with the Ford Foundation, which is supporting study of the issue...
States have focused more on the issues surrounding poor urban separated families since the passage of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as the "Welfare Reform Act...
Among the many provisions of the act was a provision requiring state child support offices to establish paternity in the birth of out-of-wedlock children receiving welfare. States must make progress towards establishing the father in 90 percent of these children, or else lose massive amounts of federal welfare money paid out in block grants...
...reason Massachusetts has been so slow to address this issue is unclear. Whatever the cause, the legislature must now act decisively to protect the interests of state residents. As it stands, there are some 5.2 million non-elderly state residents who are without any protection from discriminatory use of genetic information in the issue and rating of health insurance. Even though the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) prevents the use of genetic information in issue of group health insurance policies, nothing in HIPAA prevents the company from using such information to increase a group's rate...
...victim said she felt O'Reilly had taken advantage of her, but said that if the same progression of events occurred again, she would act the same...