Add to this the prospects of what Dan Silver, writing for the Northerner this week has dubbed the 'welfare cliff' of sizable benefit cuts later in the year, and predictions from one think tank that 2013 will resemble a 'groundhog' year with growth likely to either fall or remain stagnant, and there seems little to cheer about as we enter a New Year.
In total dollars, New York and California, with sizable populations of former welfare recipients and sizable leftover funds to draw from, rank highest among states having trouble spending their welfare windfalls.
There are 504,500 people receiving social welfare – a sizable chunk of the 4.5 million population, the health service is battered, housing is in crisis and the water supply is being privatised, which nobody is particularly happy about.
Mayor Wharton, 85, is worried about the welfare of a sizable portion of the Garden City's work force and the financial well-being of the town.
The farms in Scotland were not affected, but the restrictions imposed on the livestock movements due to the outbreak led to sizable consequences for the economy and for animal welfare [ 19, 20].
The larger welfare protest, which eventually attracted several thousand marchers, drew initial warnings of arrest but apparently proved too sizable and peaceful for police confrontation.
The US Department of Agriculture USDAA) has acquiesced to pressure from animal welfare groups to stamp out the use of cubs as entertainment for zoo visitors, who pay often sizable sums to get their picture taken holding, playing with or feeding tigers, lions, leopards and cheetahs.
The protest march, which will culminate at The Greenbrier, a hotel in White Sulphur Springs, is due to include a sizable contingent of people from West Virginia who depend on means-tested assistance programs like Medicaid, food stamps and cash welfare.
