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“No mother wants to have to go lobby her local government to ask for help with afterschool programs. … She does it because she wants to make sure her children never have to do the same.”
– Council Member Delia Garza, responding to Don Zimmerman telling a group of visiting schoolchildren to “do something useful” and not “live off others.”
This article appears in August 26 • 2016.
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