Recent studies show that some people seeking food stamps have been turned away or cut off in a push to divert them from welfare -- sometimes illegally, as a federal court found in New York City last year.
When conservatives talk to me about welfare, I sometimes reveal this about myself.
When Elizabeth was on welfare, she sometimes watched "All My Children".
In the early days of workshopping, Horin, concerned about the women's welfare, would sometimes float the idea of abandoning the play altogether when things became overwhelming.
For years, both Republican and Democratic governors have sought waivers from the 1996 work requirements in the welfare program, sometimes to tailor programs to their states' needs, or to experiment with demonstration programs.
The document called for faster reform of the household-registration system, or hukou, that denies rural migrants access to urban welfare and sometimes even the right to buy a car or a home.
That is a question asked more frequently than ever by both scientists and animal welfare advocates, sometimes about close human cousins like chimpanzees and other great apes, but also about another animal that is remarkable for its intelligence and complex social organization — the killer whale, or orca.
For the outcasts, this can mean losing tribal housing, education, welfare and sometimes cash payments, not to mention identity and community.Pain and progressThe bigger question is whether sovereignty in general and gambling in particular have, on balance, improved the lot of tribes.
"As families are squeezed between the twin demands of work inside the home and outside, millions of children are being left alone and uncared for, with disastrous consequences for their welfare and sometimes their lives," says the report from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) thinktank.
"We want to improve science and improve [animal] welfare, but sometimes we are disregarded by both sides".
