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Find her. we foundner a church. we couldn't get anybody from the system, from the state or the county system to talk to us. we found her. she has been collecting for five years. she was a mother. she was married and while she was married she had never worked. so when she got divorced, she got custody of her two children, she had no work experience. she couldn't get a job. there was nothing that she could do to make money so she went to the welfare system. she does hope to be off of it some day. she is in nursing school. she says if you are getting these programs, it's very difficult to encoura...

>> bill: you met up with a woman chris tee cogan who fits the profile all right. and here is some tape on her. go. >> if you you are going to get something for free or going to work for it and it kind of like sucks you in. i feel like they are hopeless and they have no alternative. >> the welfare system is sucks you in. >> yes. >> and it is hard to get out of it. >> yes. >> even though she is take money she knows in the motivation to go up with 80,000 staring you in the face isn't that much. right? >> she was a very enlightening person to talk to. took us a long time to find her. we found her ...

>> bill: you met up with a woman chris tee cogan who fits the profile all right. and here is some tape on her. go. >> if you you are going to get something for free or going to work for it and itind of like sucks you in. i feel like they are hopeless and they have no alternative. >> the welfare system is sucks you in. >> yes. >> and it is hard to get out of it. >> yes. >> even though she is take money she knows in the motivation to go up with 80,000 staring you in the face isn't that much. right? >> she was a very enlightening person to talk to. took us a long time to find her. we found her in...

president obama's finance committee. is it officially a lost decade for the middle class? >> it's certainly a lost opportunity. we've lost ground. and middle class americans are really suffering. >> the top end has done well though. that's where you get this whole political narrative that the middle is suffering at the expense of the top. >> the what's happening right now is we're seeing a transformation or a dramatic change in our economy. we've gone from a manufacturing oriented economy in terms of middle class job opportunities, those jobs are now lost. many of them are lost overs...

They're thinking about closing libraries, what else is in suffering in camden? >> the mayor asked for 24% cut in all departments. that includes police and fire. and in addition to being one of the most impoverished city in the country, camden is considered one of the most dangerous. that has people worried as well. libraries are also considered a way of helping keep the streets safe and people are concerned about public safety when you do something as unprecedented as closing an entire library system. >> in your article you talk about voters may have the final say here when it comes to librari...