When Mr. D. wanted to leave his minimum-wage job for a career that would allow him to support himself and his children more easily, he ended up receiving help from an unexpected partner―the City’s ...

BRAINERD — Crow Wing County recognized August as Child Support Awareness Month, an annual time to raise awareness about a critical income support program that helps millions of children and families ...

Decades of problems with distribution, debt, and enforcement have undermined the child support program’s ability to serve low-income families. State child support programs play an important role in ...

Single, low-income moms are not signing up for child support, and this is a very good thing. Less formal child support means more and improved co-parenting, higher rates of father involvement, better ...