11.  Only then would the government place a time limit on the benefits, offering those still unemployed a public job as a last resort.

12.  Others point out that women and people of color are still not represented in significant numbers at most public jobs and institutions -- especially in positions of power.

13.  Once those immigrants moved up the economic ladder, they were followed into public jobs by Italians and Jews.

14.  Reuss wanted to create millions of public jobs.

15.  Riemer and Kerksick became early critics of the welfare system and advocates for public jobs.

16.  The House bill would almost certainly force states to create make-work public jobs in order to meet new federal requirements.

17.  The WPA was a New Deal program that sought to mitigate the Great Depression with public jobs that ranged from digging ditches to painting murals.

18.  The way the critics tell it, Clinton made more poverty inevitable when he abolished the federal entitlement to welfare without adding a huge public jobs program.

19.  They have faced competition in the past from immigrants and from groups of disadvantaged Americans who have benefited from earlier public jobs programs.

20.  Those who do not find jobs would be given assisted employment in private business or given public jobs.