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The devastating layoffs that shook our lives

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How to make the perfect recession martini

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How my grandmother taught me to eat weeds

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How the recession turned me into a scavenger

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A mortgage broker with no apologies

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Putting down the vet clinic I loved

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Regrets of a stay-at-home mom

My blessed budget Christmas

Hard times? TV can be your lottery ticket

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Young, overeducated and selling pot

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I will write your college essay for cash

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I thought I'd beaten the foreclosure crisis

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The cheapskate's revenge

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How I lost my middle-class life

Food stamp hipster defends himself

Hipsters on food stamps

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I live in a van down by Duke University

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What's left behind when people lose their homes

Here comes the recession bride

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Excuse me while I stick my head in the toilet

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