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ColorLines' Seth Wessler talks foodstamps on Democracy Now!, 02/19/2010

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Read Seth's article, "Selling Foodstamps to Buy Kids' Shoes," and more, at http://colorlines.com/recovery

full video and transcript at http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/19/welfare_recipients_forced_to_sell_food

Seth Wessler, staff writer at ColorLines Magazine and researcher at the Applied Research Center, appears on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Wessler discusses his article "Selling Foodstamps to Buy Kids' Shoes," and talks about the compounding effects of the great recession on our racially stigmatized welfare system. Seth is joined on the phone by Luz Santana, director of the Hartford welfare advocacy group Vecinos Unidos.

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