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Posted on 12-10-2009
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Some Latino students choose family over college
Current financial pressures on today’s Latino youth could be forcing them to feel like they have to make difficult choices between their family and their future.

By Khalil Abdullah

to finish her studies and join the work force. “When I asked, ‘What about me?’ my mom got really mad at me,” she said. Her mother told her, “Family first, and then yourself.”

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