My Kids Had a Food Stamp Christmas One Year

It’s not regular poverty, it’s festive poverty

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There’s an Everclear song about poverty that goes, “They have never been poor, they have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas.”

That was the song playing in my head as I wrapped bags of Halo oranges and Goldfish crackers. We weren’t on welfare, but my kids had a food stamp Christmas…