food stamps
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Is everyone on food stamps?
Shocking statistics hit me today concerning 30 years of national data. The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine released an analysis food stamp recipients and it appears that 49% of all U.S. children and 90 percent of Black children will be on food stamps at some point durign childhood. Although I was...
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Welfare queen: how easy is it really to use the social safety net?
Photo by Liz JonesBorn the year after Ronald Reagan took office, the image of a "welfare queen" was burned into my mind at a young age.Squinting at the TV while my parents watched the news, there seemed to be this moral message derived from poverty.Either people worked hard and were...
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New Wednesday Roundup - Let's hear it for housing news!
Excellent punctuation. Photo by Chris Devers.Yeah! Wednesday news round up. Things are wild over here at One Story Up. News twice a week? Whoa. Try to keep a hold on your excitement, okay?But I've got some great stories for you today. A secret cemetery burial ground. Cute puppies in homeless...
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What NOT to Do in This Economy
I can't exactly hold my family up as a shining example of well-planned personal finance. There are plenty of frugal bloggers out there with ambitious savings goals (Money Saving Mom and her husband, for example, are saving to pay 100% cash on a house.), and they post regular updates about...
