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• Fact check: 4.5 million new jobs created under Obama?

• Judge OKs contentious part of Arizona immigration law

• Woman Killed By Daughter During Deadly Driving Lesson

• Democrats reinstate ‘God-given’ and Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to party platform

Public assistance money withdrawn from questionable places

Posted at: 11/03/2011 6:38 PM | Updated at: 11/04/2011 1:30 PM
By: Jessica Layton

Attention taxpayers: How do you feel about thousands of your hard earned dollars being spent in bars and clubs by some welfare recipients? 

“That's outrageous to me, it really is,” said Steve Killinger of Troy. 

Killinger is unemployed and gets state help: $83 every two weeks.

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