Selling Food Stamps for Kids’ Shoes
February 18th, 2010
This week, Colorlines, a magazine on race and politics, published a really great piece by friend and colleague, Seth Freed Wessler. “Without the help of welfare, Eva doesn’t have enough money left at the end of each month to feed her daughters full meals. It is the first time in her life, she said, that she hasn’t had enough money for food,” Seth writes in the opening paragraphs. “Now, with no other source of income, Eva breaks the law, selling her food stamps to pay for the rent, phone bill, detergent and tampons.
“Selling Food Stamps for Kids’ Shoes” was reported in Connecticut over many months, revealing a portrait of poverty and the welfare system in recession-deep America.
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