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More than 17,800 residents are receiving TANF, and more than 9,000 already have surpassed the 60-month limit, including 2,500 who have been on welfare for longer than eight years, he said.


The new welfare-to-work measures will establish needs-based assessments to help shift the paradigm from government dependency to personal responsibility, Mr. Barry told advocates.

To illustrate his point, Mr. Barry mentioned a neighbor of his in Southeast Washington. He said she gets "$400 or $500 worth of food stamps but won't get up in the morning and fix breakfast" for her children.

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