Colorado’s poorest counties face the highest rate of teen pregnancy, By Karen Auge, April 10, 2011, Denver Post: “At 2 in the afternoon on a recent Tuesday, Lexie Parker lay on the couch in her tidy, three-room Walsenburg apartment, cuddling her 16-month-old daughter, Tazia. One skinny stream of sunlight squeezed into a room otherwise darkened by a blanket tacked over the window. Tazia giggled at the furry monster and his little green counterpart as the sounds of ‘Monsters, Inc.’ filled the room. ‘This is it; this is our life,’ Parker said…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty