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    A Day at the Fare: One Woman's Welfare Passage

    By Pamela M. Covington

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    "'A Day at the Fare' is a good idea carried out very very well." -Nikki Giovanni, poet, author, educator, and activist.

    This memoir shares the lived experience of the author's unexpected plunge from a cozy middle-class lifestyle into one of deep poverty—and back. It demonstrates the importance of maintaining adequate anti-poverty programs as a means for assisting families struggling to fulfill even the most basic of needs.

    It is also a story of self-determination and resourcefulness.

    A Day at the Fare demonstrates pros and cons of the welfare system and the types of things about it that need to be changed. Much of the book, which took Covington five years to complete, is based upon copies of her actual public assistance records.

    Such a trying time in the author's life yielded one lesson after the other.

    "I too once subscribed to all the negative stereotypes about welfare recipients, until I found myself with no choice other than to become one," she said. "Then I learned I couldn't have been more wrong."

    SHOULD YOU READ THIS BOOK?

    Only hear about welfare's failures and wonder what a success story looks like? This firsthand account shows how adversity can easily force someone into poverty and what it's like to grapple with such difficult conditions day to day.

    IF your head is full of preconceived notions about everyone who receives government aid, this book is for you. You'll see that each assistance case is as individual as each assistance applicant.

    Have you ever wondered, "Why would anyone want to be on welfare? To depend on food stamps?"

    No one says, "When I grow up I'm going to be on welfare." Many times people end up on welfare through no fault of their own. The author recalls that when faced with unbearable hardship, "Applying for assistance was my last resort to having nothing at all."

    IF you've been fortunate enough in life to avoid any form of economic struggle, this book is for you. You'll gain an understanding of the complexities of poverty.

    Are you a policy maker or other individual in position to determine how much assistance poor people should receive and for how long, yet have no experience yourself with the struggles of poverty?

    IF so, this book is for you. Reading it will provide you an authentic glimpse into the everyday realities of a family trying to meet basic needs.

    Are you currently dealing with the dilemma of poverty, some personal setback, or a troubling major life change?

    THEN this book is especially for you. Most of its readers say A Day at the Fare left them incredibly inspired.

    FROM THE COVER:

    IMAGINE...
    You’re living a good life in a grand old house with your family, spending your summer looking out from your veranda onto a picturesque park and enjoying the scent of flowers in the air—until fall arrives and you’re beholding a multi-colored canopy of foliage.

    But... by winter you’re stealing toilet tissue from a restaurant restroom and wondering what you’re going to do with your first welfare check that won’t even pay the rent for the ghetto apartment you and your children are now calling home.

    The reality is we’re all only living one or two misfortunes away from losing the people or things we’re depending upon, and if and when that happens, you could easily find yourself enduring A Day at the Fare.

    What would you be willing to do to survive its grim circumstances?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPamela M. Covington
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    ISBN9780998097916
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    A Day at the Fare: One Woman's Welfare Passage
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    Pamela M. Covington

    Pamela M. Covington is a motivational speaker, author, and advocate whose previous careers include work as a journalist and a training instructor. Prior to her occupational successes, though, she unexpectedly went from living a cozy, financially secure, middle-class lifestyle to that of a welfare recipient struggling below poverty level in crime-ridden, drug-infested neighborhoods. Shocked by the appalling circumstances encountered in her new life, she immediately committed to freeing herself and children from them.Her memoir, “A Day at the Fare: One Woman’s Welfare Passage,” portrays that harrowing period of her life. She explains how the book came into being."After a layoff in 2010, while talking with friends and associates about my unanticipated employment status, I divulged a rather hush-hush part of my life. They were only familiar with the Pamela who always seemed to be doing better than okay, and were expressing sympathy about my loss of employment. I told them I was glad to be gone from there, anyway (that's another book!), and the loss was nothing compared to what I'd been through many years ago. They were surprised to hear from me how I had once fallen into deep poverty and struggled to work my way out of it.I'd written the original first 14 chapters earlier, but stuffed the makeshift manuscript away in my book room when I'd taken that job in 1997. Once I became unemployed, so many synchronicities kept lining up in reference to the time period of my proposed book, that I knew it was time for me to pull those chapters out and get the book written--no matter what. "A Day at the Fare" is a true, gritty story that needed to be told. It took me 5 years."Today as a speaker, Pamela encourages others towards achieving their greater potential rather than adopting a sense of futility, even in the most troubled of times. She presents on the topics of motivation, self-esteem, literacy, welfare independence, advocacy, literacy, and education. She also serves as an anti-poverty advocate.Pamela holds two master’s degrees from Troy University: in Management and Human Resource Management, a bachelors degree in Communications from the University of North Florida, and two associate degrees from Florida State College in Jacksonville. She is single and resides in Virginia. For leisure she takes road trips, walks beaches, attends theater performances, spins copious amounts of music, enjoys learning about various cultures, and collects books. Lots of books.Her work in progress is "Inspiration for Everyday People."

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