So do social workers, welfare advocates and an occasional judge.

Some welfare advocates have a disturbing tendency to let the best be the enemy of the good.

But the city does have a uniquely resourceful network of welfare advocates and lawyers.

Welfare advocates are already complaining that recipients will be pushed into "dead-end" jobs.

Welfare advocates criticized the city's spending on fingerprinting at a time when social services budgets are being slashed.

Welfare advocates blame the current crisis on the state government, where officials acknowledge the difficulties welfare families face.

Welfare advocates also think they have found a loophole in the Federal law that would allow the state to circumvent the five-year limit.

We have been animal welfare advocates of the first rank since the day we first started doing research.

Teachers who have to be social workers, marriage counselors, welfare advocates and crisis mediators can't have much time or energy left to teach.

Another nostrum drafted by welfare advocates lobbying for work in the Dinkins administration?