51.   Last month, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman announced an effort to work with states to inform former welfare recipients about continued eligibility for food stamps.

52.   Little Souls employs Cambodian immigrants, former welfare recipients and a formerly homeless man.

53.   Lots of former welfare mothers have found jobs.

54.   Many employers have been reluctant to hire former welfare recipients citing, among other things, their lack of work experience and education.

55.   Many of these new job seekers are former welfare recipients.

56.   Matheson is a former welfare recipient with three daughters to raise.

57.   More than a fourth of those placed have been former welfare recipients.

58.   Not surprisingly, former welfare mothers who put their children in formal day care centers are nearly three times as likely to stay employed for at least two years.

59.   One of her former welfare volunteers is now a janitor at the University of Massachusetts, and another is a mechanic.

60.   Openings will be available to anyone who walks into a state unemployment office, from laid-off workers to former welfare recipients and recent high school graduates.