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Kids’ IPhone Hopes Dashed as Americans Pare School Spend

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Tiffany Slaney-Leigh, a 14-year-old in El Cerrito, California, says she’d love to get a laptop, an iPhone, three-inch wedge sneakers, mini dresses and a butterfly tattoo on her hip before starting ninth grade this fall.

That’s not going to happen.