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WASHINGTON (AP) - The welfare rolls aren't dropping as fast as they used to, and that could pose a big money problem for states from coast to coast after a new federal law takes effect next month.
The states' task: find jobs for tens of thousands of people on welfare or risk losing millions in federal money. More than two dozen states have work to do, including Pennsylvania, California and Michigan.
The law requires states to place into job training, community service or other work activities 50 percent of their households that get welfare aid — and 90 percent of two-parent households that receive assistance.
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