What People on Public Assistance Are Actually Asking For vs What Public Opinion Believes the Poor Have Signed Up For

The Crumb Diaries (great blog and I follow on Facebook) has posed a series of questions about people on food stamps who then use cash to purchase non-food stamp-eligible items that may be seen as “vice” items. Beer, cigarettes, cold medicine, gum, hard liquor:  these are the items that incite rage into the taxpayers who […]

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Sometimes I Cry

I don’t think I have told you that before. Sometimes the work prompts me to cry. Today I met with a man who does not know where his wife is, and does not feel he should remove his children from living with her parents because he is homeless. He sees them in the daytime and […]

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Parenting Other Adults

Who are not my children :sometimes this is an accurate account of my day. I just gave my very best “Get it together, don’t be a hot mess, wear pants that are linger than your g-string” lecture. 10 minutes later the security guard was looking for me because my client left her keys at my […]

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