"This is money right out of the budgets of families who need the child support owed to them to meet their children's needs," said Vicki Turetsky, a spokeswoman for the center.
Unless the action can be reversed, it could force the layoff of perhaps 50 workers, up to about 25% of his staff of 206, Hayes said.
The county has about 130,000 child support enforcement cases, he said.
"Deadbeat dads will be given a license" to withhold support because the
county won't have enough people to help enforce court-ordered payments, he said.
Even Walker was against it:
Rod McWilliams, a spokesman for Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, said the cuts would affect county's child support enforcement operation dramatically. Walker had opposed the cuts, calling an earlier, even more severe version "devastating" and warning that families would be pushed deeper into poverty.
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