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4 Desperate Ways the Hardest Hit Are Coping with Economic Crisis
People have to make difficult choices during tough economic times. Here are 
four frightening ways people are coping with the ongoing recession.
http://www.alternet.org/story/152099/4_desperate_ways_the_hardest_hit_are_coping_with_economic_crisis/?page=entire


This is a hard read because the media won't cover it, because people don't 
want to see what's happening. Myself I'm a retiree trying to make enough 
extra by growing for farmers markets & eating - a coping strategy the article 
misses entirely. We're among the relatively lucky ones, but in the end many 
more of us will fail & join the desperate doing without necessities of life. 
I have hardworking grown children elsewhere who can't get work that'll pay 
bills, one a single father who can't afford day care to let him work.  We've 
pretty much dodged this kind of talk on these lists for years but it's 
getting harder to avoid.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net