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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (20445)	7/23/2012 5:42:43 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

You've been watching too many old movies. Those states have the same federal programs CA does.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (20445)	7/23/2012 6:00:05 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

"What charity?" food stamps for starving kids in Miss. And disability checks for single Moms in Colorado. Here is a photo of the "disabled" Laura Fritz, holding her baby in one arm and filling out a form with the other. Tattoo Check Single Mother Check Unemployed Check Unemployed "boyfriend" Check Also her back story doesn't add up. Since she is now 27 years old, if she was planning on attending college then she would have already completed it by 2007/2008 and the housing bust didn't happen until 2007. In this July 16, 2012, photo, Laura Fritz, 27, left, with her daughter Adalade Goudeseune fills out a form at the Jefferson Action Center, an assistance center in the Denver suburb of Lakewood. Both Fritz grew up in the Denver suburbs a solidly middle class family, but she and her boyfriend, who has struggled to find work, and are now relying on government assistance to cover food and $650 rent for their family. The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net. Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt) pjstar.com US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s Fritz says she grew up wealthy in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, but fortunes turned after her parents lost a significant amount of money in the housing bust. Stuck in a half-million dollar house, her parents began living off food stamps and Fritz's college money evaporated. She tried joining the Army but was injured during basic training. Now she's living on disability, with an infant daughter and a boyfriend, Garrett Goudeseune, 25, who can't find work as a landscaper. They are struggling to pay their $650 rent on his unemployment checks and don't know how they would get by without the extra help as they hope for the job market to improve.