We deal with over 40,000 welfare cases each year and the number is rising.

The social workers who are supposed to help them with their résumés and welfare cases did not seem to care, they said.

What we didn't do was rent to welfare cases, white or black.

Identify at least two welfare cases in your organization today.

Right now, administration officials said, the typical state has 30 percent of its welfare cases working.

The city currently handles about 400,000 welfare cases each month.

It seems strange, then, to think of this region as a sprawling welfare case.

They say two or three tenants every few weeks now have their welfare cases closed.

Two-parent families account for just 7 percent of all welfare cases.

The city now has 70 percent of the state's welfare cases, up from 68 percent in 1994.