Now we compromise: A few times a week I'll make what I want if I agree to try her healthier food.

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First, as usual, I want to start with the food.

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"I'm in an area where I want to make music that I thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table, " Dylan says.

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"I come sometimes when I want to be happy, " said Ms. Tounkara, who was in the food pantry cooking mafe, a traditional dish of stewed meat, peanut sauce and rice.

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What I do want is social welfare spending aimed at efficiently providing the least well off with a minimal safety net: food, shelter and health care about covers it, and these things ought to require demonstrated need and ongoing efforts to get off welfare rolls.

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