Sentence examples for recipients now from inspiring English sources

Spending nearly tripled from 2000 to 2005, to $8.2 billion, and nearly 40percentt of Medicare recipients now use the service.

One debate centers on whether the welfare population is growing, the other on the fate of thousands of former welfare recipients now working in city parks.

These include people 55 to 64 years of age, workers between jobs, employees of small businesses and former welfare recipients now working at low-paying jobs.

With food and oil prices both sharply higher since Congress approved the stimulus package, 17% of recipients now plan to allocate their rebate money to these necessities, according to the National Retail Federation, a trade group.

Nationally, about two-thirds of bachelor's degree recipients now borrow from either public or private lenders, up significantly from the early '90s, when about 45 percent of graduates borrowed from all sources, including family.

Landmark welfare reforms rolled out under the Clinton administration in the mid-90s all but killed cash welfare payments for the very poorest, Edin says – just two out of every 100 recipients now get any cash benefits.

Ms. Fredricks, a mother of six, is a former welfare recipient now making moccachinos at a Midtown coffee bar.

Yet real expenditures per recipient, now $6,000 a year, have grown roughly two and a half times faster than real wages over the last 25 years.

In 15 NHL seasons, Näslund was thrice First Team All-Star, chosen in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and a Lester B. Pearson Award recipient (now known as the Ted Lindsay award), winning in 2003.

Social Security recipients are now on track to receive the highest cost-of-living increase since 1982.

They include the sickest recipients, who now account for the majority of people on welfare.