[chance33_98]

http://www.childrensdefense.org/pdf/no_work_no_welfare.pdf

works now, had some wayward characters in it

[stylin19a]

Thanx....

Here's what I get from this:

The reasons for these numbers are:

1. The welfare benefits period has come to an end. More than 93,000 families had had their cases closed due to time limits by December 2001
2. Someone who has worked only 1/3 rd of the year is considered 1/3rd of a person without work/welfare.
3. Women don't know they are eligible for welfare.
4. Those eleigible for welfare must work. If they stop working they stop getting welfare. Failure to comply with work rules and related requirements resulted in more than 500,000 families losing assistance from 1997 to 1999.

This organization admits it connot say with any certainty which of the above reasons causes what percent of the number they came up with. How, then, could they come up with a number in the first place ?