Hunger in America: A View From the Street: ; Researcher Helps Women Document Plight of Poverty
Sunday Gazette-Mail › March 02, 2009
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PHILADELPHIA - An office party goes on without her, across town in an affluent world vastly different from the one where Mariana Chilton now finds herself. Her husband's tried calling. Twice.
And still she sits in dress slacks and stocking feet, gray suede shoes tossed aside, on the drab carpet of a row house in the Philadelphia projects, playing with someone else's children while her own three kids wait for Mom to come home.See the full content of this document
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Hunger in America: A View From the Street: ; Researcher Helps Women Document Plight of Poverty
A mouse scurries by, but Chilton doesn't flinch.
She is listening, for the umpteenth time, as another mother speaks about what it means to be poor and hungry in America.About how this mom scrimps and stretches by adding more than the usual amount of water to powdered milk to make it last. And how, at times, she makes chicken for her children but eats Oodles of Noodles herself. About the 50 bucks left on the food stamp card that must carry this family two more weeks.Tianna Gaines i...See the full content of this document
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