Falling Through the Safety Net, As No Good Goes Unpunished.

Focuses on the first wave of benefit expirations under the 1996 federal law that altered welfare in the United States. Insistence of city officials in New York City that safety-net assistance in the form of work programs and state aid for needy families facing time limits would be available; Details of the efforts of Barbara Carson, a 63-year-old woman raising her five grandchildren, to find employment.