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    "ocrText": "Vice President has done a tremendous job of bringing our religious and service\norganizations together in his coalition to sustain success. And in 1997, as I said, my\nlong-time friend, Eli Segal, agreed to help to rally the business community and you\nknow the rest. Today, he, Gerry Greenwald and the other founders have built a\npartnership that is 12,000 businesses strong.\nMembers of this welfare to work partnership, businesses both large and small, have\ngiven -- listen to this -- just the members of this partnership have given 410,000\nwelfare recipients the opportunity to have a job. (Applause.) More than eight in 10\nexecutives report great success in hiring people off welfare roles. They're finding\nthese employees are a good investment -- they work hard, they stay in their jobs as\nlong or even longer than other employees. And in this era of labor shortages we\nmust not forget that welfare recipients can be a rich pool of untapped talent -- people\nwho are good for the bottom line. I thank you for recognizing the important role you can\nplay in extending these opportunities to all Americans.\nI am proud to say, also under the Vice President's leadership, the federal\ngovernment has done its part. Our goal was to hire 10,000 people by this year from\nwelfare; we have now hired 14,000 --- in the smallest federal government since 1963.\n(Applause.)\nMr. Mayor, one of the people we hired from welfare is here with us today. Her name\nis Maria Hernandez. She was on public assistance for more than three years; now\nshe's worked as an administrative assistant in our Cook County North Census Office\nsince January. Thank you, Maria, and thank all the rest of you who are here who\nreflect the same story. Thank you. (Applause.)\nNow, before we get on with the program today, I want to tell you that as pleased as\nwe are, we have to do more. And I'd like to mention the things that I believe we have\nto do to make the most of this economic opportunity for America, to fulfill our moral\nobligation, to promote the values of work and family to the people still on public\nassistance and those who teeter going back and forth.\nFirst, we must continue to honor our commitment to welfare reform. There are some\nin Congress who want to cut the welfare block grant we give to the states and take\nsome of that money back, because the welfare rolls are so low, to finance a big tax\ncut. I think that would be a mistake, and here's why. (Applause.) Here's why. In\nevery state, there are still people who could move from welfare to work if they had\nmore training, if they had transportation, if they had child care. (Applause.) In every\nstate, there are people who may be working today who might have to leave the work\nforce, for lack of transportation or child care. (Applause.) In every state, there are\npeople who can stay on the job if they get further training.\nSo I say, let's spend this money to develop the human capacity of our people. It will\nmake the economy stronger, and we will all be better off. (Applause.)"
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