1.   Before making the welfare address, Dole toured a local plant that manufactures stainless steel tanks and employs several former welfare beneficiaries.

2.   Although many former welfare recipients found jobs in services or retail trade, they were working in the two lowest-paying sectors in the state.

3.   And just as former welfare recipients are learning to live on fragile, marginal jobs, another safety net is vanishing.

4.   And in separate interviews, executives at those companies said that they had retained a larger proportion of former welfare recipients than other entry-level employees.

5.   And that, he said, is where most of the former welfare recipients remain.

6.   And once off government aid, most former welfare recipients cannot rely on Medicaid.

7.   As former welfare recipients lose their jobs, a big unknown is how many will qualify for unemployment insurance.

8.   As former welfare recipients move into the job market, many of them are not aware that they can still receive food stamps and health care from government programs.

9.   At the center of the debate is the requirement that businesses pay former welfare recipients the minimum wage when they are training to take jobs.

10.   At the center of the debate is the requirement that businesses pay former welfare recipients the minimum wage.