The state offers a mother with two children just $120 a month.

The state has also offered to keep men away when the photograph is taken.

Most states already offer more benefits than are required by Federal law.

Some states offer tax benefits that may lower the cost a bit.

This year, the state offered about $450 for that amount of water.

By then, 13 states were already offering some kind of primary.

Union officials said the state also offered a better health care package.

Those states, he says, offer him the best opportunity to break to the front of the pack.

Before the strike, the state offered a 12 percent increase over two years.

The state has offered to pay a maximum of $12.1 million.