After "Slick Willie" vetoed welfare reform several times and was finally brought to heel by Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress.   Shortly after welfare reform was enacted I was tasked by a very reluctant Knowles Administration to try to figure out how to work "Welfare to Work" in merit system jobs in a unionized employer.   What we found was that a woman with a kid who used all of her benefits had an income equivalent to a State Range 14 or 16 and probably had more disposable income.   Those are jobs that take several years of progressively responsible experience or a college degree.   Most couldn't qualify for an entry Range 8 or 10.   We didn't get many and most didn't stay very long; why get up and go to work when you can sit home in your robe and make more?