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The Quiet Shame of Food Stamps: Reclaiming Dignity in Hard Times | Women Like Us
In this deeply personal and empowering episode of Women Like Us, host Theresa Hayden explores the hidden emotional landscape of using food stamps (EBT) and government assistance. This episode is for any woman who has ever felt a pang of shame or inadequacy while trying to make ends meet, offering a compassionate reframe of financial struggle as a shared human experience rather than a personal moral failing. Theresa shares her own story from age twenty-six, working multiple jobs yet feeling like she had failed an unspoken test of adulthood when swiping her EBT card in a grocery store line. She…
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