Nine People, One Bedroom: A Teen’s Take on Life In Poverty
Nine People, One Bedroom: A Teen’s Take on Life In Poverty
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Jairo Gomez’s nine-person family lives in a one-bedroom apartment. He knows education is the way out of poverty, but sometimes being poor makes it difficult to make good choices.