Recession takes toll on parties

Jasmine Rocha learned a valuable budgetary lesson when planning her quinceañera, the 15th birthday celebration that represents a rite of passage from childhood to womanhood for Latinas. "It was very hard because sometimes the stuff that I wanted, it wasn't able to come through," said the teen from Dallas, Texas. Jasmine's mother, Grace Grimaldo, sometimes has a tough time even paying the family's phone bill, but balked at the suggestion that her daughter's quinceañera was not a financial necessity. READ FULL STORY
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