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Why generational differences about assistance create family tension

My grandmother keeps asking when I am going to get off welfare and I want to explain that without it we would be homeless but she would not understand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Historical narratives about work and independence clash with contemporary economic realities in ways that isolate struggling family members.

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