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City Seeks to Improve Local Welfare

By Dan Gorenstein on Monday, February 21, 2005.

The city of Berlin says it's got a local welfare problem.

Officials say they have seen their welfare budget grow every year for the past five.

And increasingly, Berlin says it's had to pick up the tab for other towns' downtrodden

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports, the situation has gotten to the point where the city is calling for a change in state law.

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