Thought-provoking photo series and interview with Michael Williamson, an award-winning photographer at The Washington Post, on poverty in America. I’m interested in how people pursue that American dream. [People who] did everything right, did everything they were told to do, hard working clean living, and yet they’re not going to get a piece of the action beyond barely surviving. [..] the typical food stamp recipient is a Caucasian American. So it’s not a person of color. It’s not a lazy person who won’t work. It’s not a scammer. It’s a 6-year-old Caucasian boy who lives in Tennessee. You know, when I was on food stamps as a kid, I was a good kid who probably wouldn’t have taken to crime. But if I was hungry enough, I might have shoplifted a can of tuna or some spaghetti. But I didn’t have to. We had food because of food stamps. And I became an educated, hard-working citizen who has paid back this government all the money that came our way hundreds of times over. So my feeling is, the government invested in me. And they’ve gotten a darn good return on their money.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:00:46 +0000
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