1.   Among those most alarmed by the falling rolls is Ms. Moore, a Milwaukee Democrat who represents many former recipients and who once was on welfare herself.

2.   And if former recipients are not working, it is seldom because of a job shortage, the problem that many analysts feared a few years ago.

3.   At all such speeches, the White House trots out cheerful former recipients.

4.   A handful of states have conducted surveys to see how many former recipients have jobs.

5.   But researchers in Ohio and elsewhere have concluded that most former recipients simply totter on the edge of subsistence.

6.   Even emphasizing the fate of former recipients may be missing larger questions, some analysts now say.

7.   Former recipients must learn how to hold down jobs.

8.   Former recipients are not earning very much and their prospects for promotion appear dim.

9.   Former recipients did not fare well.

10.   Her department is training caseworkers to tell former recipients about the services available to them.