1.   And officials with the Dominican Republic consul general office in Times Square said the Dominican Republic had established a commission on Monday to assist families and investigate the crash.

2.   Clinton said government could assist families by raising the minimum wage.

3.   Hayes has also started an organization called Families in Grief Hold Together, or FIGHT, to assist other families who have lost members in workplace accidents.

4.   In New York and across the country, child welfare systems usually do little to monitor or assist reunited families, experts say.

5.   Indicted on racketeering charges Wednesday with Corozzo were eight other men identified by the FBI as Gambino soldiers, or associates, who assist the family in illicit operations.

6.   Lawmakers are reluctant for other reasons to put restrictions or requirements on how states use federal welfare money to assist low-income families.

7.   Lucia Dunn, a professor of economics at The Ohio State University, agreed that the state could do more to assist low-income families.

8.   Many colleges will assist families in doing this even before they apply.

9.   Of course, the child welfare agency should take the lead in integrating the efforts of others trying to assist troubled families.

10.   Poverty experts say more money and more flexibility for states to focus on the child cases is the key to assisting these families.