Nine People, One Bedroom: A Teen's Take on Life In Poverty

Update: 2015-08-22

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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.

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Nine People, One Bedroom: A Teen's Take on Life In Poverty