ANGELA RACHIDI: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the American Enterprise Institute. My name is Angela Rachidi, and I’ma research fellow here in the poverty studies team at AEI. The poverty studies team here has the great pleasure of hosting our event today on child support enforcement. Led by the Morgridge Fellow in Poverty Studies, Robert Doar, the poverty studies team here at AEI, we research and evaluate federal policies focused on low-income families and low-income populations in America. And child support is one of the programs that we study, and it’s actually one of the programs that gets little public attention.

We commissioned a paper, the poverty studies team, on child support that will or has been released today, looking at trends in the program and trying to gain insight into some of the reasons behind the trends and maybe why child support enforcement has diminished in its capacity over the past few years. We’re going to hear from Dr. Daniel Schroeder, who authored the paper and took a critical look at these trends.