After Welfare
Through the lens of a young mother struggling to get by in Washington, D.C., Katherine Boo explores welfare reform, poverty, drugs, crime, and teen pregnancy.
"By the age of twenty-one, she had a high-school diploma, a history of victimization by rape and domestic abuse, and three babies by three hit-and-run men." — Boo on Elizabeth Jones, who decided welfare reform could be her family's rescue