| 21. | The city now has 70 percent of the state's welfare cases, up from 68 percent in 1994.
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| 22. | In North Carolina, welfare cases dropped by 64 percent while the poverty rate increased by 1.1 percent.
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| 23. | Yes, they say, they support block grants, but what if the number of welfare cases begins to soar?
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| 24. | Those people, critics say, were better prepared to work and do not represent the hard-core welfare cases.
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| 25. | In Georgia, the number of welfare cases dropped by 59 percent while its poverty rate declined by . 8 percent.
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| 26. | States retain much of the money recovered in welfare cases as a way to recoup money spent on Aid For Dependent Children.
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| 27. | State officials believe a 1984 federal law compels states to maintain basic confidentiality in child welfare cases or face possible financial penalty.
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| 28. | The architects of welfare programs have also never resolved what to do about the root of most welfare cases-- unwed mothers.
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| 29. | They assert that in welfare cases they do not make the law, but argue on behalf of clients as zealously as they can.
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| 30. | The shift is particularly apparent in Indiana, which leads the nation with a 30 percent decline of welfare cases since Clinton became President.
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