31.   Academicians will assist DFACS personnel in analyzing the data and determining what additional information the agency might need to collect to assess the impact of new welfare laws.

32.   About a dozen states created food-stamp programs for poor legal immigrants who are not naturalized citizens in response to the federal welfare law.

33.   After five years, families would be dropped from the rolls entirely, as mandated by the federal welfare law that took effect in October.

34.   Against considerable legislative opposition, he succeeded in making a work requirement the centerpiece of a new welfare reform law.

35.   Also, under the new welfare law, states can convert welfare payments into job subsidies for private employers.

36.   Both the federal and state welfare laws have time limits that kick in after an adult receives five years of benefits.

37.   But deadlines and the welfare law face their toughest tests in the poorest communities with the highest unemployment, like those of the Mississippi Delta.

38.   But DSS and welfare officials also said that the trend should reverse itself with the new welfare law.

39.   But even if the administration submits a plan now, the new welfare law allows officials to amend their plan over the next few months.

40.   But Democrats said that the charitable choice provision was slipped into the welfare law without a public airing.