SAN JOSE, California (AP) - Social worker Luisa Chavarin thought she had left unemployment and crime behind when she emigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the global technology industry.
But a four-year economic slump, combined with draconian reductions in state and federal funding, shuttered her 13-year-old son's after-school program.
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