Hillbilly Elegy
If Books Could Kill
The Welfare Queen - A Book Review
"I've known many welfare queens. Some of them were my neighbors and all were white," he writes. "They're playing angry birds when they should be going to church, joining an NLM." The author admits that his family did receive government benefits but says it's a big part of how his grandmother put food on the table.
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