Latasha Carrington and her husband and children have been selected for a cash- and food-assistance program targeting D.C. families living in Ward 8. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Life was never going to be easy for Latasha Carrington. She has known that since she was a child. In her teens she spent five years in foster care, with 15 families. She had her first child at 19. Now, at 31, Carrington is the mother of seven, sharing a cramped apartment with her husband and children in the District’s Ward 8, where 31 percent of families live in poverty in one […]
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