21.   But the welfare law also required state officials to inform former welfare recipients of their right to receive Medicaid for up to one year after leaving the system.

22.   But Weinstein and others attribute the decline to former welfare recipients who are unaware that they may still qualify for this particular benefit.

23.   But Wendell Primus, a former federal welfare official who resigned last year to protest the new federal law, offered a different interpretation.

24.   Carmen Garcia, a former welfare mother with a gnarled stump for an arm, is now a supervisor at another Ponce project.

25.   Center officials are working to form one such group of African-Americans and former welfare mothers who back welfare reform.

26.   Carla Pitsinger, a former welfare recipient who lives just outside Dayton, said she was better off during the seven years she was on welfare.

27.   Clinton also would give businesses a tax credit for hiring former welfare recipients and would broaden an existing tax break to include US software companies operating overseas.

28.   Cooperative Home Care Associates, of the Bronx, trained former welfare recipients to provide home-care services to elderly and disabled patients in the Bronx and Manhattan.

29.   Employers are hiring former welfare recipients, people from poorer neighborhoods, residents of homeless shelters and drug rehabilitation centers, and new immigrants who cannot speak English.

30.   Every day at Operation Breakthrough, a day-care and family resource center in Kansas City, many former welfare recipients drop off their children on the way to work.