Welfare Mom: A Title I Will Be Proud to Claim
I have taken my time writing this post, because I wanted to write it from a calm place. I didn’t want to write it while I was still very angry. I was fired, you see, and accused of–hmm. How exactly do...
View ArticleProud Welfare Mom: WIC vs SNAP
:::UPDATE – This post was written in 2013. Much has changed in our lives since it was written, but I remain proud of my family, and we do remain both dependent on and grateful for government services...
View ArticleProud Welfare Mom Update: We have not caused a budget crisis
There’s been a rash of absurd comments on a post I wrote last summer about WIC vs. SNAP, most of which have nothing to do with the content of that post. I would like to address a few apparently common...
View ArticlePublic Assistance, Family Values and Hard Work: Proud Welfare Mom
In a country that proclaims its love of both family values and hard work, I feel that many of the readers who admonish my family’s choice to work fewer jobs/hours and spend more time together, as a...
View ArticleProud Welfare Mom Goes Back to Basics
I’ve realized a few things about these posts: one, I have had a blind spot that needs to be addressed, now that I can see what’s back there, and two, I need to articulate what these posts are supposed...
View ArticleProud Welfare Mom Finds Support at #BlogHer14
I didn’t expect Proud Welfare Mom to show up at the BlogHer conference. I knew that the minute I got back, I’d need to be on the phone, dealing with the IMPOSSIBLE-to-get-on-the-phone Department of...
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