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摘要

On the morning of Turner Gray's English 201 final at the Borough of Manhattan Community College last spring, a city marshal evicted her and her two kids from their Bronx apartment. She'd fallen behind on rent after the city cut off her welfare because it mistakenly thought she wasn't working. Money troubles had forced Gray to quit school once before. This time she had somewhere to turn for help. Gray went to her school's Single Stop USA office, where a worker lined up emergency funds from BMCC and, after days of phone calls and paperwork, helped sort out the misunderstanding with the city. "I was back in my apartment in a week and a half," Gray says.