7 Kids, 1 Apartment: What Poverty Means To This Teen [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/20/1412:00 PM

Jairo Gomez is 17 years old and lives in a tiny apartment in New York City with eight other family members. He has grown up in poverty, like one-third of all kids in the city. With WNYC's program Radio Rookies, Gomez tells the story of how poverty has held him back, and how he's trying to overcome it.

[For more of this story go to http://www.npr.org/2014/11/18/...-and-life-in-poverty]

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