Tough Times Force Woman Back On Welfare

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Tue, 10/14/2008 - 8:00am

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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