The White House has called for more welfare experiments by the states before wholesale Federal changes are made.

As a participant in Wisconsin's ambitious welfare experiment, the company's Milwaukee office drew television crews and dignitaries.

New Jersey's family cap went into effect in 1993, under a Federal waiver allowing the state to conduct welfare experiments.

With a record 15 million Americans on welfare, more than 30 states have asked the Federal Government for waivers allowing them to run welfare experiments.

A previous generation of welfare experiments, begun in the early 1980's, produced valuable research about job training and led to adoption of a nationwide program.

His long record as Governor does show him to be one of the nation's most aggressive leaders in conducting welfare experiments.

The meeting disintegrated into a technical discussion of welfare experiments.

But in the preceding four years, the Administration had approved 43 waivers that allowed states to conduct a variety of welfare experiments.

They said they might provide a smaller expansion of child care to poor working families and conduct smaller welfare experiments than originally proposed.

The group also talked about reducing several welfare experiments, including a test program to increase training for absent fathers, so they could afford greater child support payments.