31.   It also comes after days of increasingly angry complaints from families about the pace at which the Red Cross is distributing cash assistance.

32.   It eliminates the federal guarantee of cash assistance for the needy.

33.   It is also money they desperately need to help the families left behind by prosperity and facing federally imposed time limits on cash assistance.

34.   It will knock many children off disability rolls and limit families to five years of federal cash assistance.

35.   It would not only impose a five-year cutoff but also end the basic guarantee of cash assistance for eligible poor families.

36.   It would also require states to withdraw cash assistance from unwed teen-age mothers and deny more aid to mothers who have additional children while on welfare.

37.   It would eliminate federally guaranteed cash assistance for those who cannot find work.

38.   Massachusetts recently changed welfare eligibility for teen-age mothers, requiring them to live with their parents or in group homes in order to qualify for cash assistance.

39.   Minnesota required welfare recipients to work but allowed them to continue receiving modest amounts of cash assistance at the same time.

40.   Moynihan has expressed disgust with the current direction of welfare politics, particularly Republican efforts to eliminate the federal guarantee of cash assistance for poor children.