Part of the increase results from day care costs, which the state last fall began paying for recipients with young children.
The figure for Hispanic recipients was also very high, 55 percent.
There should be one million new jobs for welfare recipients by the year 2000.
The law does not set an age limit for recipients of the aid.
The country spent little more than $1 billion last year on education and job training specifically for welfare recipients.
But the figure for black and Hispanic recipients was nearly twice as high, 38 percent.
But the city this year is handing out less than $1 billion directly for recipients to spend.
A. We are aggressively trying to put together programs for welfare recipients.
In late 1995, the city opened a job placement center for welfare recipients.
For recipients, egg donation is usually the end of the line.