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From Welfare Recipient To CEO

HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 05.25.2012

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When Kelli Gilzow needed public assistance to get through college, she never thought she'd have to go back on welfare years later as a single mother. ...

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GOP Congressional Candidate Calls Medicaid Recipients 'Non-Taxpayers'

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.19.2012

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Tennessee Republican congressional candidate Scottie Mayfield referred to Medicaid and welfare recipients as "non-taxpayers" in a position paper he re...

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Vets Back From War Face Shocking Reality

Columbia, MD Patch | Lisa Rossi, Brian Hooks, and Marc ShapiroEmail the Authors | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, American Veterans, Welfare, Poverty, Unemployment, U.S. Military, Veterans, Politics News

When Andrew Smith III talked with his U.S. Marine Corps platoon mates in Iraq before he returned to Maryland in 2009, he recalled they agreed finding ...

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Perry Applauds Maine Gov's Controversial Advice To Unemployed

Posted 05.10.2012

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Tuesday that he agrees with Maine Gov. Paul LePage's (R) suggestion earlier this week that any unemployed welfare recip...

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For Latino Voters, Immigration NOT The Biggest Campaign Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Welfare, Video, Latino Voters, Food Stamps, Vanderbilt University, Illegal Immigration, Magali Sanchez Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Social Safety Net, Undocumented Immigrant, The Life of Julia, Election 2012, Pell Grants, Efren Perez, Latino Voices News

When she was 12, Magali Sanchez's parents divorced. Her mother, unable to find work in Mexico that would feed the family, made a desperate decision. ...

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Octomom: Her Children, Her Choice and Our Responsibility

Roland C. Warren | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Absentee-Fathers, Welfare, Single Mothers, Single Motherhood, Nadya Suleman, Octomom, Personal Choice, Fatherless, Parents News

Suleman's story exposes the fact that for the last few decades, our culture has been constructing a modern-day "Tower of Babel" in celebration of "personal choice," especially when it comes to sex.

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Maine Governor Tells Unemployed To 'Get Off The Couch' And Get A Job

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- At the Maine GOP convention on Sunday, Gov. Paul LePage (R) received an enthusiastic standing ovation from his fellow Republicans for sa...

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An Exploding Number Of PhD Recipients Are Using Food Stamps

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.08.2012

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In this economy, even having multiple degrees isn't a guarantee against poverty. The number of PhD recipients on food stamps and other forms of we...

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My Year on Food Stamps

Wendy Fontaine | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Welfare, Department of Health and Human Services, Food Stamps, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, House Agriculture Committee, Buffett Rule, Impact News

I had worked as a newspaper reporter for more than a decade, interviewing presidential candidates and reality TV stars. I had a college degree and a retirement account. Never once had I thought I would need help with something as basic as buying food for my kid.

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'Nobody's Going to F-ing Die Because We're Poor!'

Annie McKee | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Welfare, Poverty, Nutrition, Poor, Cancer, Teleos Leadership Institute, President Barack Obama, Obesity, Domestic Violence, Government Aid, President Obama, Low Income Families, Cancer Treatment, Impact News

Of course, rich and middle-class people suffer from cancer and drug abuse, alcoholism, child and spouse abuse. All of these issues are complicated. So is poverty. I know this from my own personal experience.

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How Does Divorce Affect Kids Outside The U.S.?

Robert Hughes, Jr. | Posted 04.26.2012

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Far too much of the research discussed in the American press focuses exclusively on studies that are done with American children.

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Romney-Rosen Firestorm Is Reminder: We Need to Redefine Gender Justice

Michelle Chen | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Hilary Rosen, Women, Welfare, Labor, Poverty, Ann Romney, Economy, Economic Crisis, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Motherhood, Gender, Politics News

The partisan proxy war waged over the mommy question only underscores the country's lacking vocabulary when it comes to discussing the totality of social and economic barriers facing women.

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The Bad Research Behind Georgia's Welfare Drug Testing Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.23.2012

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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed a law last week that will soon require welfare applicants to pay for drug tests and pass them in order to be eligi...

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The Equality of Inequity

Daniel P. Malito | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Welfare, Wealth Inequality, Social Security, Inequality, Politics News

What we need to do is to stop telling everyone they are equal, and instead tell everyone that while every single citizen is as important as the next, there will always be inequalities in a consumer-driven society such as ours.

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House Republicans Oppose Bill That Would Help Low-Income Moms Stay Home Like Ann Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans emphatically agree with Mitt Romney that stay-at-home moms work just as hard as anybody in the workforce. But when it ...

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GOP Senator Says Few Americans 'Really Need Help'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- One of the Senate GOP's leading budget mavens unveiled Wednesday the party's plan for cutting aid to the poor by $440 billion, saying th...

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It's Time to Reexamine the Welfare Reform Law of 1996

Ed Koch | Posted 04.19.2012

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Responsible people shocked by the fraud and outrages that marred the old system of welfare went overboard -- me among them -- in seeking to eliminate the abuses. It is time we examine the subject again and seek a just solution.

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Just as We Suspected: Florida Saved Nothing by Drug Testing Welfare Applicants

Rachel Bloom | Posted 04.18.2012

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We already knew that Florida's welfare drug testing law was a failure; what we didn't know was just how much of a failure it was. Until now.

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House Bill On Moms Would Take Romney 'At His Most Recent Word'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A handful of House Democrats, encouraged by the recent bipartisan agreement that stay-at-home moms should be considered just as hard wor...

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Lottery Winner On Food Stamps Charged With Welfare Fraud

Posted 04.17.2012

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Amanda Clayton, a Michigan woman who won $1 million from the state lottery last year, was arraigned today in district court on felony charges stemming...

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Stay-at-home Working Mothers

Karen Mangiacotti | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Hilary Rosen, Welfare, Mommy-Wars, Ann Romney, Kim Kardashian, Nannies, Working Parents, Stay-at-Home Moms, Mitt Romney, Stay-at-Home Parents, Parenting, Working Moms, Parents News

Ann Romney raised five boys -- not for the faint of heart, I tell you. I don't care if the woman had 50 nannies and a housekeeper. The job of holding all of those lives in your heart is huge.

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You're on Your Own, Kids

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.12.2012

Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? Let me give it a whirl from the perspective of one whose own unwed mother had several abortions before yours truly was permitted to emerge.

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Poor People Turned To Desperate Measures When Welfare Failed Them

nytimes.com | Posted 04.08.2012

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PHOENIX -- Perhaps no law in the past generation has drawn more praise than the drive to "end welfare as we know it," which joined the late-'90s econo...

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Child Careless: Without Help, Working Poor Parents Struggling

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Breakdown, Working Poor, Welfare, Child Care, Poverty, California, Jerry Brown, California Budget Crisis, Business News

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Every time she pulls away from her parent's house, leaving behind her 3-year-old daughter, Angelina, as she heads to work at a l...

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The Individual Mandate's Conservative Origins

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Welfare, Heritage Foundation, Individual Mandate, Hillary Clinton, Health Care, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Supreme Court Health Care, Politics News

The individual mandate which was included in Obamacare is so close to what Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation initially suggested that we can honestly say there is no appreciable difference between the two. The only real difference is whether Republicans supported the idea or not.

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