Brother Quote by Tony Gonzalez

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

— Michael Tubbs

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot,…

— Paulie Malignaggi

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to…

— Nia Jax

My mother was on welfare for a couple of years, then she got a job as a travel agent. Finally, years later, scrimping and…

— Neera Tanden

My mom struggled for a long time growing up poor, and then we were on welfare when I was a kid. So to see…

— Andrea Navedo

My mom was a single mother in the South Bronx living in adverse conditions. Seeing her struggles to get herself off of welfare and…

— Andrea Navedo

My parents got divorced when I was five. My father left for a time, and my mother had to go on welfare. She worked…

— Neera Tanden

My mom did amazing work, raising four kids on her own on a secretary's salary; we were on school free lunch program, but she…

— Ruben Gallego

Thrust into single motherhood, my mom worked multiple hourly jobs to support my sisters and me. She couldn't find full-time employment that included benefits…

— Wes Moore

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary,…

— Shemar Moore

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

— Jeffrey Donovan

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs