Unfortunately, there are many families who have not benefited and remain on welfare. The Office of the Attorney General handles 250,000 child support cases involving 400,000 children receiving welfare benefits. Children should receive financial support from parents, not from taxpayers. This is the best time to help those on welfare by helping cooperative non-custodial parents move into the workforce. The Office of the Attorney General recommends that non- custodial parents of children receiving welfare participate in job programs provided by the local workforce development board.
Courts can make participation in the job program a condition of probation.
The partnership with the Texas Workforce Commission will also be spreading across the state as the 28 local workforce development boards come are formed. For Texas to be truly great, we must do everything within our power to see that our children are a success - not a statistic. We must not leave any child behind. With all of the parties that occur during the holiday season, the number of alcohol-related traffic deaths increases dramatically. In 1997, Texas led all other states in the number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities.