Pride made Esequiel hit the road for a while instead of taking welfare.

People like me were born into families where taking welfare was not conceivable for us or our forebears.

She works, don't take welfare, sends the kid to church, keeps him in school-she's all right.

Abandoned by the father of her 5-year-old son, she took welfare only long enough to find work.

They started taking welfare, scraping by on that and the little hit of income the father earned from doing odd jobs.

Why should the Governor, who overextends himself, think he has the right to take corporate welfare to pay his bills?

Daniel said, "My family's taking welfare, living in the projects.

In some cases, she said, it is financially better to take welfare than to work, considering the cost of child care and insurance.

He had taken a keen interest in the cultural as well as material and social welfare of his people.

"Nobody likes to take welfare, but you got to do it to survive."