MYTH NO. 2:POVERTY IS SIMPLY ABOUTNOT HAVING ENOUGH INCOME

摘要

Jessica jakubac, an edgewood parent, lost her last job because her son woke up one morning with an inflamed leg. Jaku-bac rushed him to a clinic and would have called her office to say she'd be late, except that she doesn't have a home phone (too expensive) and her cell-phone service had recently been cut off because she couldn't pay the bill. By the time she called from the doctor's office later that day, she'd been logged as a no-show, which compounded the numerous late arrivals already on her record because of chronic trouble with her car: it needed a new battery, but she couldn't afford one, so she often had to find a jump start first thing in the morning.