11 Home scene [k]

She and her husband are living in her mother's house with four other adults and her three children; the youngest, two months old.

Her husband is frequently out of work. For rent, heat, clothes, food--the bare essentials--her family needs about $235 each month. She is considering getting a job to help make ends meet.


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