1.   As a welfare program, the minimum wage misses the Mark because it worsens the status of the most disadvantaged youths.

2.   Not long after their inception, the welfare programs were under attack.

3.   Secondly, a federal law enacted last year requires California to create a radically new welfare program.

4.   The Republicans are not for the most part protectors of these welfare programs.

5.   The serious cutting will occur in the social welfare programs, which are pretty much all that remain.

6.   There, in one county, state authorities are now studying proposals from companies about how they would run the welfare program.

7.   This welfare program has eased the financial strain of raising children alone.

8.   When Congress creates welfare programs, it must prescribe arbitrary limits for eligibility.

9.   Lawmakers are overhauling the welfare program.

10.   Also, Florida lawmakers warn that replacing federal welfare programs with block grants could hurt their state.