71. The pilot project, the only one of its kind in Texas, is part of state welfare reform approved last year by the Legislature. 72. The proposition covers every public agency, from state welfare agencies and public universities, to local school districts and transit agencies. 73. The state welfare agency never offered her the group home option, Baker said. 74. The strategy is sound because studies show that well-designed welfare-to-work programs have modestly reduced state welfare rolls. 75. The state welfare department might be a source of aid for low-income children in the program. 76. They must also rewrite thousands of pages of state welfare rules to bring them into line with new federal laws. 77. They said private charities and state welfare programs would help many of the children removed from the federal program. 78. They met Roslyn last year in a meeting room at a state welfare office. 79. They proposed legislation that would also have the Social Security Administration disburse payments to parents or to state welfare agencies. 80. Thirty-eight states have already submitted broad outlines of their state welfare plans for review by the Clinton administration. |
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