If every parent paid the child support they should, we could move 800,000 women and children off welfare immediately.

Asia White has been on and off welfare for two years.

"It gets people off welfare and gives them a chance for a reasonable life."

"I couldn't have made it through school and off welfare without the help," she said.

"But the President established that they want to get people off welfare," she said.

Those states that provide parents with the support they need to make their way off welfare are seeing some progress.

No longer would the bill force families off welfare after they had been on relief for five years.

In our country, we have not even been able to offer child care to move families off welfare and into the labor force.

We will try to move toward getting people off welfare.

The law was intended to get people off welfare and into jobs.