Episode 8: Tonya Brito and The Child Support Debt Bubble

Photo of UW Law School professor Tonya Brito.Tonya L. Brito, Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, discussed her recently published article, “The Child Support Debt Bubble”. Professor Brito (SSRN)’s article uses qualitative data to examine the problem of exorbitant child support debt owed by noncustodial fathers in no- and low-income and predominantly Black families.

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The interview was conducted on February 14, 2020. | 25:44 minutes; published March 6, 2020. Transcript file (PDF).

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