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City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi has quietly given up his 10-month-old fight to block a $104 million, three-year deal the Giuliani administration offered to a Virginia contractor that helps welfare recipients find jobs.

Barbara Nesby, a coordinator in a program that helps welfare recipients manage their lives, says her whole office is shaken by the possible call-up of one employee, Ian G. Heron.

"This" consists of the Robert Treat Academy, which is to graduate its first class of eighth graders this spring; the Newark Business Training Institute, which helps welfare recipients obtain job skills; the North Ward Child Development Center, which serves 520 children; and Casa Israel, which provides medical services to the indigent.

In West Philadelphia, the People's Emergency Center, a nonprofit group, is already providing such services, including after-school computer programs, wireless access at $5 a month, Web site development for small businesses and a program that helps welfare recipients communicate with caseworkers through the Internet.

Requests for $62 million in state aid yielded only $3.4 million, while a proposal to bring parity to the way the state helps welfare recipients pay for public and private housing — which could ultimately mean an additional $46.6 million a year — is still pending.

Mr. Matarelli said those services helped welfare recipients "get some traction in the economic mainstream".

Returning to New York, Bill worked helping welfare mothers attain high school equivalency diplomas.

Maximus, based in McLean, Va., is the nation's largest private operator of programs that help welfare recipients find jobs.

Many of the services are intended to help welfare recipients, including those who face the greatest difficulties moving into the work force.

Those programs -- intended to help welfare recipients land jobs and keep them -- range from job placement and child care to intensified case management.

The initiative has its origins in a belief shared by Mr. Turner and Ms. Pollock that the government approach to helping welfare recipients threatened with homelessness was too slow and too expensive.