When I was a child, my mom resisted AFDC because she thought it would be a moral failure to be on it. We lived on oatmeal for nearly a year outside of school. All the while she constantly looked for work. Her accepting the benefits was the best thing for the health of our family.
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I don't think this is a unique story, and that's due in large part to the perverse need to convince working folks that they must suffer, even die, while lining the pockets of those who attack these programs that help people recover in a matter of months.
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You're not helping anyone. You're not fooling anyone anymore either. If we can't feed the poor, the ill, or the children of this nation, we fail to live up to true American standards.
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Right. Think in terms of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. When you’re down in the bottom level or two, that’s all there is. If you help people take care of those, they have space to pay attention to other stuff like holding a job and filling out paper work.
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Fun Fact: - 18.3% of Kentucky lives in poverty. -Non-Hispanic whites make up approximately 85.4 percent of Kentucky's population. Who does Trump think he's really hurting?
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