1.   During the next three years, thousands of welfare families will be thrust into this low-income labor Market because of welfare reform.

2.   And advocates for the poor say that even if welfare families have a greater problem with school attendance, withholding welfare checks will not solve it.

3.   Better that than drive-by shootings, drug gangs, and welfare families.

4.   -- Federal law does not require welfare families to have their children attend school, undergo annual health check ups or be immunized against sicknesses.

5.   But administration officials said that this was not enough for either welfare families or other low-income families who need to work but have no day care for their children.

6.   But Hilderban supports the idea, an attempt to control the sizes of welfare families by ending increases in cash grants when additional children are born.

7.   But he seemed less certain whether his proposals to stop welfare families from having more children, and to limiting benefits to teen-age mothers, would be adopted.

8.   But the Cato researchers perversely assumed that the typical welfare family had two children receiving WIC benefits, and that low-income working families had none.

9.   For example, they counted food stamps as income for welfare families but did not count them as income for the several million working families that receive them.

10.   He has argued that welfare families will not be able to survive on entry-level jobs without the promise of health care.