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Radio Diary: 'How Can All This Stress Be On One Person?'
17-year-old Allure and her mother live in Newark, New Jersey. They're just one of the millions of American families whose lives could be transformed if a child poverty proposal passes in Washington.
"How can all this stress be on one person?" Allure says. "She makes it happen though. I don't know how, but she makes it happen."