11. Bost said more in-depth studies are planned with larger samples in order to detect problems that cause former welfare mothers to cycle back onto assistance. 12. -- Incomes earned by former welfare recipients are low. 13. A factory that makes plastic garbage bags and three tribal casinos have given jobs to dozens of former welfare recipients. 14. A job means that much to the former welfare recipient. 15. A Michigan study has shown that former welfare mothers with jobs are significantly less likely than mothers still on welfare to report domestic violence or homelessness. 16. But in Milwaukee, according to the CDF and the NCFTH, three out of four former welfare recipients were no longer with the same employer nine months later. 17. But how about those governors who do nothing on school performance standards or let former welfare recipients starve in the streets? 18. But many former welfare mothers remain poor and the poor continue to struggle. 19. But the city has not surveyed people leaving welfare or workfare, and has blocked independent attempts to survey former welfare recipients, including those working off the books. |