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Jan.25- Feb.8, 2001
 
Out-Spoken  
Welfare Administrator says DSHS is broken and getting worse
by Joe Martin
 
by Joe Martin Last year, the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) announced that its welfare-to-work program, WorkFirst, had shrunk the number of people on welfare by 40 percent. With all those former welfare recipients working, caseworkers could be cut.
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