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Myth of the Welfare Queen: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist's Portrait of Women on the Line
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Scribner
Publication date February 1, 1999
Pages 320
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780684840062
ISBN-10 0684840065
Dimensions 1 by 5.50 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.75 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $14.00
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Investigates the welfare mother stereotype and follows the lives of two mothers struggling to keep their families together (view table of contents)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Zucchino spent a year sharing the lives of Odessa Williams and Cheri Honkala -- two "welfare mothers" in Philadelphia -- to gain an intimate look at their day-to-day existence. Odessa, supporting an extended family, exhibits almost superhuman strength and resolve. Cheri, a single mother, is a tireless advocate for the homeless. Zucchino beautifully portrays them as figures of profound courage and quiet perseverance, systematically shattering all misconceptions and stereotypes about these women and so many others like them.

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Hardcover
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from Scribner (March 1, 1997)
9780684819143 | details & prices | 366 pages | 6.25 × 10.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Investigates the welfare mother stereotype and follows the lives of two mothers from Philadelphia who struggle to keep their families together
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from Scribner (February 1, 1999)
9780684840062 | details & prices | 320 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $14.00
About: Investigates the welfare mother stereotype and follows the lives of two mothers struggling to keep their families together

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