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Stay and scrape by, or leave #shorts
60 Minutes· 2026-02-27 14:15
I think our government needs to hear us. That we've worked our whole life here. Why won't they help us.Does it matter who's in charge. >> It doesn't matter if it's Republicans or Democrats. It doesn't matter.>> In Mcdow County, people face two choices. Stay and scrape by or scrape together enough money to leave. Tabitha Collins is staying.You're 26 years old and you're raising four kids. That's a lot of responsibility. >> It's a lot.I don't know how I get through it, but I do. I just want to live the dream ...
Inside McDowell County, West Virginia, the birthplace of food stamps | 60 Minutes
60 Minutes· 2026-02-23 04:04
For some, these are the boom times. 401ks are surging. The stock market has hit an all-time high.But drive just 350 miles from the nation's capital. And the conversation isn't about how to get rich, but how to survive. McDow County, West Virginia, was once the nation's largest coal producer.It is now one of the poorest places in the country where the food stamp program started and later the opioid crisis took hold. Today, one in three households there depends on those food stamps. And now the program that h ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-09-18 14:22
The number of unemployed Canadians receiving government assistance has reached the highest level since February 2022 https://t.co/Z14HIBsCQl ...