In this edition of Mother Jones magazine, Stephanie Mencimer offers an up-close view of a young mother in Georgia who was repeated (and wrongly) told she was in ineligible for TANF benefits in Georgia. Mencimer claims that some states have made an aggressive push to get thousands of eligible mothers off Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, often by duplicitous means, to use the savings elsewhere in the state budget.

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