social welfare
welfare ***
public assistance

The number of children on public assistance has gone up by nearly 300 percent in the past 30 years.

More than 20,000 students are on some sort of public assistance.

Many were on public assistance before they came to work for him.

Mom never told him, but we were on public assistance quite often.

They come from poor families, 93 percent of them on public assistance.

You'll live the rest of your life on public assistance.

Can he really not know that most of those on public assistance actually need help?

"Not everyone is on public assistance because they want to be," she said.

Lives on public assistance with his wife and two young children.

We need your support to continue getting people off of public assistance.