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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Flipping the Script on Poverty-- POOR Magazine's welfareQueens, by Jess Hoffmann

The Bay Area-based welfareQueens, a project of the POOR News Network, are fighting back against a system that dehumanizes poor mothers—with poetry, theater, and any other media tool they can access. welfareQueens began in a kitchen in San Francisco’s Mission District when a group of poor women who knew each other from anti-poverty organizing gathered around a table to share their personal stories....[read more]

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