71.   This would simplify life for state officials and for the working poor, whose household income, on which food stamp allotments are based, often fluctuates.

72.   This competition for assistance stands to be fractious in a place where welfare recipients and the working poor already coexist in a churning mix of resentment and sympathy.

73.   Unfortunately, for the working poor, much of the suburban employment is in jobs that barely pay minimum wage.

74.   Welfare mothers in New York who are being forced to go to work now find themselves in desperate competition with the working poor for help with day care.

75.   What is new is the gap between the working poor alongside those who are becoming exceedingly wealthy.

76.   What about help for the working poor in an age when unskilled folks are losing ground?

77.   While the United States is enjoying continuing prosperity, affordable housing for many of the working poor has become harder to find, a federal report said Monday.

78.   Without that education or training, the working poor will not be able to bridge the digital gap.

79.   Beyond fairness, Sawhill worries that the marriage penalty for the working poor might discourage some from marriage, when two-parent families are usually better for children.

80.   But a survey of the working poor in Chicago and surrounding suburbs has found otherwise.