Minjoo Jung blog # 11
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-sharp-sudden-decline-of-americas-middle-class-20120622#ixzz1yplIkz8i
This article stood out to me because my family lies in the middle class and I am worried something like this can happen to me. People in the middle class had good stable jobs but after the great recession hit, they lost their jobs. It had such a big negative impact on their life that they had to live in their cars in a parking lot. The Safe Parking program is a big help because it gave the people who did not have homes to live in their cars in those lots if they had a permit. It is so crazy to think how one day a person can have a good job but in a blink of an eye, they can lose everything they have and get thrown out into their car to live. The one lady that was interviewed named Janis Adkins had to live in her car as well and eat fruits that fell from trees to stay alive. Good thing Santa Barbara does not have cold weather because if it did then that would be a brutal condition to live in. There are even teenage children living with their mother because they did not have homes. The great recession is really bringing people down in a negative way and I am scared that one day everything that I have and own will be gone.
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