August 11, 2006

New Regulations Could Push More Welfare Recipients Out of College

By ELYSE ASHBURN

Emily M. Wood remembers when she hit bottom. It was the fall of 2000, and she was working at Julie's Laundry in a small town in southwestern Maine.

Ms. Wood was still married to her abusive husband back then, she says, but had managed to get her high-school-equivalency degree the previous December.

So she was mortified when she found herself unable to make change for a customer at the laundromat without the help of the cash register. "He gave me a look of total disgust," she

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