Who Deserves Government Assistance?
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In this Nov. 2009 photo, Lisa Zilligen, then a single mother and full-time student at Loyola University, feeds her children lunch. She had been receiving food stamps at the time.
( M. Spencer Green / AP Photo )
( M. Spencer Green / AP Photo )