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...social and economic mobility is a double-edged sword. Woo finds herself flirting with the line between advancing her career through education and losing access to the welfare provisions—state-issued food stamps and childcare vouchers—that allow her and her daughter to keep their heads above water...
...executive vice-president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which awarded Woo a scholarship of up to $30,000 per year, said the challenges Woo faces financially are shared by community college transfers at any school...
...She’s got to support her daughter as well as her education and herself—the struggles that she’s facing in that process are an echo of what is happening to many students,” Joshua Wyner says. He adds that Woo is an exception: “Many of them don’t find a way out of it.” A DAY IN HER SHOES...
...Woo wakes at 5:30 every morning, then wakes her daughter and gets her ready for the day. The pair eat breakfast and by 6:45 a.m. is in Woo’s recently acquired ’98 Plymouth Neon. Woo drops Amarrah off at a day-care center in Charlestown.“She’s very, very, almost strangely understanding of the fact that I’m in school,” Woo says...
From Charlestown, Woo takes the T to Harvard Square, rushes to class—which she has scheduled back to back on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays—before changing into khakis and a shirt that is “an ungodly shade of blue” to take the red line downtown to work at the Vitamin Shoppe...