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Communities shape families and families shape children, but in the fight to bring economic mobility to poor and middle-class children in Chattanooga, the first step is the hardest.
BY JOAN GARRETT MCCLANE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAURA FRIEDMAN
TONYA ROOKS TUGGED AT THE BOTTOM HEM of her red sweater dress and carefully covered her bouncing right knee as she waited in the lobby of a homeless shelter in Highland Park.