1.   But perhaps more telling, demographers, economists and poverty experts who have researched the migratory patterns of welfare recipients say the mayor is simply mistaken.

2.   But poverty experts warn that child support has often been oversold as an answer to welfare or the plight of poor single mothers.

3.   Poverty experts say more money and more flexibility for states to focus on the child cases is the key to assisting these families.

4.   Some poverty experts see virtue in the present system despite its faults.

5.   Yet Bush administration officials, European leaders and poverty experts are deeply divided about what went wrong and what to do now.