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Tough Times Force Woman Back On Welfare

from National Public Radio
October 14, 2008

Forty years after getting off welfare, commentator Mary Sojourner finds herself signing up for benefits again. And she learns that the faltering economy has put a lot of neighbors in her small California desert town in the same situation.

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  • Morning Edition, October 14, 2008
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