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If You???re Not Poor, Can You Teach Your Kids What It???s Like to Be Poor?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

While I was growing up, my family didn’t have much money. During the recession in the ’80s, he was unemployed for nearly 2.5 We got our clothes as hand me down from older cousins or from thrift stores. My dad worked first as a meat cutter and then at a factory. My mom was an at home day care provider.

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