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Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune
Jared Clark who plays a part as a thirteen-year-old Latino girl counts money and takes takes care of a one-year-old little brother (represented by doll) during Community Action Partnership of Utah's poverty simulation for the upcoming Utah Poverty Conference at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. In the simulation he was assigned to be a thirteen-year-old girl with a twin brother. Their father is in jail and mother is no where to be found. It's up to the twins to buy food and take care of their baby brother and hold things together. The exercise is designed to broaden understanding of the day-to-day struggles of people trying to survive with few means and little money. Participants will role-play as TANF recipients, disabled or senior citizens on social security and will interact with human service agencies, grocers, pawnbrokers, bill collectors, job interviewers, police officers and others in a series of four 15-minute "weeks." Play money will be used but CAP representatives say the role play -- and surviving poverty -- is no game.
(Salt Lake Tribune) |
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