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<title>DHHR chief backs investigations into welfare car program</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Paul Nusbaum says he was shocked when he first discovered how much West Virginia was spending on its Wheels-to-Work welfare car program. Nusbaum, the states secretary of Health and Human Resources, learned at a June 2001 meeting that West Virginia was ...]]></description>
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<title>Vehicle sales being investigated</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Sharon Paterno ran a $4.4 million welfare car program for a Morgantown-based nonprofit organization. She also sold her 1993 Oldsmobile 88 to the same federally funded program for $3,500. Larry Richards worked under Paterno and was second-in-command of ...]]></description>
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<title>Too costly</title>
<description><![CDATA[    BY the time it was over, the state spent $24 million on a car-leasing program intended to provide welfare recipients with a way to work. But only 2,230 people out of the 2,900 who received cars ended up with permanent titles to the vehicles. That works...]]></description>
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<title>Wheels program relatively costly</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A new Toyota Echo. Thats what the state could have bought for every low-income West Virginian who ended up owning a car through the Wheels-to-Work program. Instead, the welfare car program spent $10,700 a person to put people in used cars that cost abo...]]></description>
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<title>State agencies investigating fraud allegations</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has launched a statewide investigation into the $24 million Wheels-to-Work welfare car program and a new donated-car initiative that took its place. The inquiry has been given "high priority" a...]]></description>
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<title>Id rather ride a horse</title>
<description><![CDATA[    GLEN JEAN &#8212; David Olds suspected trouble with the 1993 Chevy Corsica moments after he picked up the keys. A thick sheet of ice covered the floorboard beneath his feet. Water had leaked through the hood and dashboard. "She was plumb full of ice," ...]]></description>
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<title>State AFL-CIO leader defends Wheels to Work</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The president of the state AFL-CIO defended a program to lease cars to welfare recipients Sunday, while promising to investigate alleged wrongdoing within the program. "Was everything perfect. Probably not, but nothing is perfect," Jim Bowen told legis...]]></description>
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<title>Clunkers and questionable deals</title>
<description><![CDATA[    SALT ROCK &#8212; Kenneth Ray Parsons doesnt have a state auto dealers license. He doesnt pay workers compensation or unemployment coverage for his employees. Hes been arrested twice in the past two years: once on charges that he accepted a stolen Pont...]]></description>
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<title>A different class of people</title>
<description><![CDATA[        When West Virginia legislators started to ask questions about the Wheels-to-Work program last month, Human Resource Development Foundation executives struck back.  At a public legislative committee meeting at the state Capitol, they passed out info...]]></description>
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<title>Welfare car program to be audited over lemon allegations</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Lawmakers voted Monday to audit and investigate the West Virginia Wheels-to-Work program. The program spent $24 million over three years to lease cars to welfare recipients so they could work or go to school. But during interim meetings Monday, several...]]></description>
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<title>Junkers</title>
<description><![CDATA[    THE TOP priority of the states social service office should be to help struggling people to find and keep jobs, not to heap more headaches &#8212; and debts &#8212; on them. Yet thats what appears to have happened with the states Wheels to Work program...]]></description>
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<title>Legislators want review of Wheels-to-Work grants</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A state senator is questioning why a nonprofit group with "spotty results statewide and terrible results for some families" has received a $1 million grant to run a donated-car program for welfare recipients. The state Department of Health and Human Re...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    Most of the seat belts in Michelle Cleres 1989 Chevy Astro van dont work. They slide uselessly within their casing, without the satisfying "catch" that means youre locked in and secure. Thats just the beginning of the Astros problems. The turn signal i...]]></description>
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<title>Welfare recipients got lemons; used-car dealers got millions</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Edith Holbrook was driving home from the repair shop when her cars engine erupted in flames. "Im going to blow up with this car right now if I dont stop," Holbrook remembered thinking to herself one night last May. "I thought I was going to die." Holbr...]]></description>
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