Sunday, June 17, 2012

[statesman.com] In Texas, working poor families struggle to get ahead

By Brenda Bell
Published: 10:43 p.m. Saturday, June 16, 2012

Back in 2005, a lifetime ago, Alona Smith was working random jobs as a security guard and taking classes at Austin Community College when she became pregnant. As the dutiful daughter of a single mom, a latchkey kid who had basically raised her own baby sister, she knew too well what lay ahead....

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