That is our eventual goal. This idea can be a model for any type of thing to match legislators with welfare recipients, business people with unemployed or welfare recipients, or match people without health care with hospital administrators. What is going to happen in all likelihood is that the federal government is going to block- grant welfare money out to the states. We're going to need to have state legislators educated as to what they should do with the block grant money at the state level. We would like to see this project launch that system.
Some people have a stereotype of what an average welfare recipient is.
Many believe a welfare recipient is a young mother, a minority, has been on welfare all her life, has several children and those children will be on welfare all their lives. She has 1.7 children and she is white. She is experiencing welfare for the first time in her adult life. She will be on welfare an average spell of about 18 months, and the average total time is about two years and two months. National statistics are similar to our state's statistics.