1.   All welfare recipients who are able to work will be required to accept workfare assignments when the local government offers them.

2.   At first, she was afraid the workfare assignment would interfere with her classes and her plan to become a teacher of hearing-impaired students.

3.   Before Yolanda De Jesus got her workfare assignment recently, she had high hopes for her high-tech background.

4.   Before the budget crisis forced its closing, the program had seen students leave when they were called to workfare assignments.

5.   But this strategy has been criticized for simply shuttling some welfare mothers from workfare assignments to job clubs and back.

6.   Consider Pamela Brown, the home relief recipient who said her workfare assignment as an aide in a community center interfered with her ability to go on job interviews.

7.   In particular, students say they must choose between education to improve future prospects and menial workfare assignments.

8.   Last week, a woman with a long, documented history of heart disease died while on a break from her workfare assignment in Coney Island.

9.   She said she was told she had to drop out of school immediately to take a workfare assignment.

10.   The bill would, for instance, make welfare recipients employees of their city or county governments once they have been on workfare assignments for six months.