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Poverty

unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:57 AM Sep 2015

“I’m on welfare and so ashamed …” [View all]

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/11/im_on_welfare_and_so_ashamed/

“I’m on welfare and so ashamed …”
Salon staff and Whisper Staff
Friday, Sep 11, 2015 07:00 PM EST

Whisper is a social network where men and women can express their deepest feelings anonymously. Below, people talk about what it’s like to receive government assistance: the hard grind of poverty, the fear of being judged, the shame of having to rely on others. But there’s something else as well: resilience in the face of hardship, and a belief that things will get better.