The stares -- prying, judging.
The casual ridicule from others she feels when she pulls out food stamps or nowadays, a debit-looking card, from her wallet in the grocery check-out line. A LABOR ACTIVIST who lives in Ithaca with her 12-year-old daughter,
Maybe if she would quit "activating" and start working - she wouldn't have any need for foodstamps at all?
Or maybe I am just casually ridiculing this poor waif......
Since you mentioned it, I'm not sure about your neck of the woods, but where I live, a lot of the women I see using food stamps are overweight. A large number of them morbidly obese. And its not beans and rice in the shopping cart, but a lot of twinkies, coke, pepsi and other items that these poor things would starve without.