So 42 percent of the people do not need to be told, 2 years and you're off, because in less than 2 years they are off.

They become record clerks, x-ray technicians. There are a number of jobs where they can come out of the program and not only get a job immediately in the New York City area or the Brooklyn area, they can go anywhere in the country, because…

For a long time in New York State we had a debate on whether or not welfare would provide, help keep women on welfare who wanted to go to college. They have to get a special waiver to go for 2 years, and that was permitted for large…

More intelligent, more well-directed job training and education program and a program fully paid for by the Federal Government, because States and local governments have balked at supplying any percentage of the funds needed for the…

You have not even mentioned health care, the fact that after they get off AFDC, they cannot get Medicaid, they do not have health care.

So we would go down from 5 million families to something like 3 million families.

You have said that the plans that are being developed by the White House indicate they want to focus in on the youngest welfare recipients, which means that the ones coming in now, the youngest ones, would have the youngest children.

A program to train people for 1 year. In 1 year of training one can get certain categories of jobs: practical nurse, child care aide, and one or two others. So just to have a 1-year training, one gets trained for a job that is going to…

It is very interesting to note that it appears that welfare would be one of the more efficient Federal programs, in that people who receive assistance, large numbers, do get off and make the attempt after 2 years. Not so with the farm…

That is uniform across the whole country. All children get a certain amount of money. It is generally higher than the amount they receive in AFDC. Every child is understood to be worth, under the Social Security program, a much higher…

I congratulate my distinguished colleague from California for that fine piece of legislation, and I would like to become a cosponsor. I think it certainly ought to be a component of any welfare reform legislation. Mr. Speaker, I have a…

If they have a high school diploma already, then we can conclude that they probably do not need a very costly job training program. They need training for jobs, but they have a lot to offer when they come to the training for the jobs, and…