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

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

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

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

So I'm not sure where you come down on federal assistance.

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

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

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

"I'm probably one person who shouldn't have been on assistance to begin with."

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