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Permian High School Students Share Their Stories On Growing Up In A Boom Bust Economy

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(Sally Beauvais / Marfa Public Radio)

On this episode, we share essays from four students at Permian High School in Odessa. The stories were written for the Boom or Bust project — an initiative of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin — and explore how the unstable economy affects the students' lives and their relationship to money. The project aims to help promote understanding of the region's energy and economic resources from a humanistic perspective.

Diana Nguyen also talks to teacher Katie Groneman about teaching in a boom-bust economy and why she thinks these stories are important.

Thanks to students Alejandro Tarango, Jaiden Ramsey, Zach Robinson, and Abby Gex for sharing.

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