An occasional series of stories that will examine
the economic, social and personal challenges faced by Rhode Island's new middle
class.
07/31/2005
She walks alone Diana Ubiles Agosta is 42. She has nine
children, a job that pays $9.23 an hour, a mortgage on a South Providence
home she cannot pay and no car. She has always taken care of other people.
She prays she can get through this.
American
Dreamers: Led into temptation Living a middle class life built in part
on credit card debt, a local immigrant family has the will -- but lacks
the way -- to dig out.
