O.K., adults on welfare may be too far gone, but eliminating welfare will push kids to stay in school, avoid pregnancy, marry and work.

Congress intends to speed the process by eliminating welfare as a Federal entitlement, instead sending lump-sum payments directly to the states for their own programs.

Democrats have listened to the experts selectively on eliminating welfare.

Without these other programs, eliminating welfare will not reduce poverty or single motherhood, crime, or any other target for social change.

It increased poverty, lowered income for single mothers, put people from welfare into homeless shelters, and left states free to eliminate welfare entirely.

"We've really eliminated welfare as we knew it."

Among a number of other Assembly-passed provisions is one that would eliminate welfare entirely for people who are disabled because of alcoholism or drug abuse.

The Republican leadership has found a new way to pummel the poor: Cut programs that benefit them in the name of eliminating "corporate welfare."

During the 1995 campaign, she promised to repeal labour laws and eliminate welfare (Toronto Star, 5 June 1995).

He wants to cut taxes in half, lay off state workers and eliminate most welfare.