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For children trapped in poverty, breaking free is getting harder [latimes.com]

 

Luz Rivas knew the two dozen fifth-grade girls sitting before her. Not by name, but by experience.

She once lived in tight spaces, shared homes, back houses, a garage. It was back in the 1980s, when she and her mother and sister would get squeezed out of one place, hear about another and start over again. It’s still that way for children in the Pacoima neighborhood around Telfair Elementary, only more so.

“I hated that assignment in school when they asked you to draw your house,” Rivas, 44, told me. “I didn’t want to draw a garage.”

[For more on this story by STEVE LOPEZ, go to https://www.latimes.com/local/...tml#nws=mcnewsletter]

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