"The key is to prevent everybody needing welfare. The key is to get people off welfare. You don’t want this to keep being a repeated cycle. It seems like it’s a repeated cycle, and it gets worse."
See Angela featured as she speaks out on hunger in the Philadelphia Inquirer
See Angela featured in a story about gaps in women's wages.
See Angela featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 2/15/10.
Angela is a thirty-two and a mother of two boys, aged two and eight. She receives SSI-disability because she was shot in the abdomen when she was a teenager and she supports her family with her SSI check, a small amount of cash assistance and food stamps. She also braids hair for extra cash because rent payments eat up eighty percent of her income. Housing is one of Angela’s biggest concerns-- she has been on a waitlist for Section VIII for nine years. Angela was about to receive her voucher in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina happened and she was told by Philadelphia Housing Authority that her voucher had been given to a victim of Katrina and that she had been placed back on the waiting list.
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