Lynn C. Woolsey: “I've been on welfare. I've moved--man, I can really relate to what's happening with people right now. My children, they…”

“I've been on welfare. I've moved--man, I can really relate to what's happening with people right now. My children, they were one, three, and five years old. Their father was emotionally ill, and he left us; and I went to work, of course. I mean, they were my babies. I wanted to take care of them and did. But I couldn't make ends meet. So I kept my work and kept my job. This was 40 years ago, remember that. But we had to go on Aid For Dependent Children to round off childcare and health care. And we got so much more in aid and help then, 40 years ago, than poor people do now, poor moms. And I just don't know how they're making ends meet. We moved from a really nice home. We had two cars. I was 29 years old. We were the ideal family. And it just turned inside out. And my kids and I moved to a little two-bedroom cottage. I bought a little beat up Volkswagen, drove it to work every day. It had a flower on the side--this was in the 1960s, of course. But it was so hard. And we got so much help, more help than families get today. And that's why we want families in the stimulus recovery package to recover along with others that are going to get helped.”