Breaking the Cycle

Welfare

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  No Way to Communicate

  Mother: Ashley O

  “I don’t have a phone, so I have to use pay phones. That’s the closest phone. It’s been broken for two years now. There’s another phone, too. But I don’t go there because of drug dealers over there. I have to walk to where the train station is to use a phone to call the welfare office.”

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  Policymaking in Washington, DC

  Mother: Erica S
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  Zharae

  Mother: Whitney H

  "This is me breaking the cycle with my daughter. I don’t want my daughter to go through nothing I went through."

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  Reaching Out

  Mother: Whitney H

  "I’m just tired, I’m just all tired. I just wanna get my daughter away from here and get my family away from this because it’s like they don’t care about the low-income people. If you’re not making enough money as they’re making, they don’t bother it. And I don’t think it’s right, I don’t think it’s right to us."

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  Fighting the fight

  Mother: Tangela F

  I'm just like that. I'm like Rocky. Rocky's fighting the fight like I'm fighting the fight with welfare, I guess.