For some people, going out to eat and to the movies just isn’t in the picture any more. The job market is down and people are losing their jobs. The housing market is down as well, people can’t sell their houses.
CNN told the story of a single mother who lost her $70,000 a year job in February. Patricia Guerrero has been doing everything possible to support her two children and pay the bills.
She gets unemployment checks, but that isn’t enough.
She found herself going to food bank, something she never thought she would do. She also applied for food stamps, but was turned down.
“I never used the system. I’ve been working since I was 15-and-a-half. I needed it now and it turned me down,” Guerrero said.
Daryl Brock, executive director of Second Harvest Food Banks in California said they’ve noticed a change in the type of people that come in.
The poor economy is now taking on the middle class.
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