The following commentary by Anthony Smith was posted on the mic.com website December 18, 2017:
Before the Great Recession, Dawn Pierce was a paralegal for a successful bankruptcy attorney. But then the American economy collapsed and she lost everything except her family.
Pierce, a mother of one from Boise, Idaho, never thought she’d be in a position where she couldn’t provide for her family. But with a son to feed and no real source of income to buy groceries, she had no choice but to apply for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a federal entitlement better known as “food stamps” that helps lower income families purchase food. Continue reading “I never knew how wrong I was about people on food stamps — until I was one of them.”