21.   Board members also recommended that the state provide money for a full-day kindergarten program for all students.

22.   Both parents worked, the state provided child care, and leisure time was centered on community activities.

23.   A few states also provide short-term disability coverage for workers.

24.   A few states provide some enticements for Jane and Joe Average.

25.   A few states already provide aid to two-parent families as well as single mothers, but have nonetheless experienced a rise in illegitimacy.

26.   But attorney Elaine Whitfield Sharp, who represents the DeSalvo and Sullivan families, said she wants the state to provide semen samples from the Sullivan case.

27.   But because the plan would require the state to provide training programs or public-sector jobs to welfare recipients, it might not save the state any money.

28.   But defiant district officials insisted on Friday that the reason the schools had not improved was that the state did not provide enough support and resources.

29.   But he would not say whether the state would again provide half the financing for future programs.