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Remarkable Success in Moving From Welfare to Work

Governor Pataki reformed New York's welfare system, freeing able-bodied New Yorkers from a system that trapped them in a cycle of dependency. His welfare philosophy provides recipients with avenues to employment, self-sufficiency and a more promising future.

• Governor Pataki’s leadership reduced welfare rolls by more than one million recipients—a 62% reduction that brings New York’s welfare rolls to the lowest level in 37 years.
  
  
• To ensure that the transition from welfare to work is successful, Governor Pataki invested more than $5 billion to help welfare recipients and low-income individuals acquire the support and skills they need to find jobs and keep them.