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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Amy Goldstein / The Bulletin
October 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — The nation’s welfare system of cash assistance, for decades the core of help for mothers and children in financial distress, has become a shrunken piece of the U.S. social safety net.
The welfare rolls have absorbed relatively few of the Americans who have tumbled lately into....