A federal judge today temporarily halted Michigan's unusual program to test welfare applicants for drug use.

In my opinion, the greater long-term benefit comes from keeping a strict screening process for welfare applicants.

And he shrugged off a central criticism of the program - that it makes welfare applicants feel like criminals.

It is designed to prevent welfare applicants from using assumed names to collect benefits in more than one place.

He proposed that the state find work for welfare applicants before allowing them on the rolls.

Or do we presume that most welfare applicants are looking for a free lunch?

But those studies did not focus on welfare applicants, their authors noted.

He later announced that provincial welfare applicants would be required to pass a literacy test.

An instructor told a group of welfare applicants that a cosmetics company was looking for workers.

To push welfare applicants to self-reliance, he added, "we need to create, if you will, a personal crisis in individuals' lives."