Welfare during a recession

Welfare during a recession

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More than 460 thousand families are on welfare in Illinois. That number’s grown with the recession but according to some experts, it’s not nearly as high as it should be, and that’s stopping some financially strapped people from getting a boost out of poverty. For our Front and Center series on economic mobility, Shannon Heffernan has this story.