ABSTRACT
I have experienced the life of a welfare recipient, I have seen what it can do to people. This has inspired me to do something about it. There came the day over 5 years ago that I was ready, that I was looking, that I was hurt enough to fight back! I grasped for something that would enable me to gain back everything that I had lost. They had tried to strip me, as a woman, as an individual, as a human being. 1
