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One of wrestling most enigmatic personalities will have to clear his name in court of law. Ted DiBiase Jr. is charged with stealing millions of dollars from a welfare fund.

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Brett Favre asks to be dismissed from a lawsuit claiming that he and other individuals used Mississippi TANF funds for themselves.

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Retired NFL star Brett Favre has his SiriusXM show put on pause amid the resurfaced Mississippi welfare fraud scandal

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Speaking recently at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, Carson made the utterance that welfare and government assistance has undermined Black families far more than slavery.

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The mother of Gucci Mane‘s 11-year-old son says she’s living on welfare and living in Section 8 housing while the boy’s famous father lives lavishly. Sheena Evans is seeking up to $20,000 in child support payments from the rapper and author, which would be an $18,000 increase.

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Nkechi Diallo, the former Rachel Dolezal and past Spokane, Washington NAACP president who posed as a Black woman for years, is now facing felony welfare fraud charges. Diallo is facing a trio of charges related to the fraud after depositing a large amount of cash while claiming she needed welfare assistance.

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Newt Gingrich Still Thinks Food Stamps Are Just An African-American Issue   Revealing a smug defiance to his previous outlandish statements, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich further decried the furor that arose after his controversial stances on public assistance and poor African-Americans and other minorities. During Monday night’s (January 16) GOP debate in South Carolina, […]

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The current financial recession has been more damaging for African-American communities in New York at an alarming rate, confirmed a report released Monday by a city comptroller. According to CNN, while unemployment in the city spiked to 72 percent from the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009, it surged to more […]