My girls wanted me to leave welfare a long time ago.

Even in our hot economy, those who have just left welfare are, on balance, worse off.

Depending on the state, 30 to 50 percent of those who leave welfare don't find jobs.

Indeed, after leaving welfare, families were almost 50 percent more likely to say they had no way to buy groceries.

Since then, millions of Americans have left welfare for paying jobs.

About 20 percent of those who left welfare returned to the rolls.

The President said he expected an additional 2 million people to leave welfare in the next four years.

Some people in the program got jobs that paid enough to let them leave welfare altogether.

What about the other 50 percent of families who left welfare?

It needs to understand what happens to families after they leave welfare.