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Monthly Archives: September 2012
The Forty-Seven Percent
Many years ago my three children and I were nearly homeless. Child support wasn’t coming and I was too sick to work. In addition, no jobs paid enough to pay child care for three children under five. We went from … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, food stamps, Forty-Seven Percent, hate mail, homeless, poverty, poverty statistics, Romney, stereotypes, welfare
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Hunger (encore, on vacation)
I waited on our front porch in Colorado everyday, willing the mailman to bring me my child support check. The trees where the starlings roosted hovered over the porch roof. I was a single mother with three young children, and … Continue reading
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Tagged child support, food stamps, hunger, Paul Ryan, roots of injustice, SNAP, U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops
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