States hold onto federal dollars meant for needy families
“Vanessa Mccrickard, a single mother of two from Woodbury, Tenn., is the sort of person welfare is designed to help.
Mccrickard says she can’t find reliable child care in her town of roughly 3,000, which is about 50 miles from downtown Nashville, so she can’t work full-time. She receives child support from the father of her oldest child, but nothing from the father of her 2-year-old. She struggles to pay her bills”