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Pastimes : The Hot Button Questions:- Money, Banks, & the Economy
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To: maceng2 who wrote (372)8/19/2003 6:19:08 PM
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Are you seeing this in your neighborhood ?

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August 17, 2003

In 1964, Sandra Miller married the man of her dreams, but that dream turned into a nightmare after she realized their finances were in disarray and the only way out of tremendous debt was filing for bankruptcy in 1996.
"Now I can't buy anything, I am done," said Miller, 62, of Fort Pierce, Fla. "I am just trying to keep a roof over my head and some food in my belly."

Miller isn't alone.

Millions of people are struggling to keep financially afloat. As the already-fragile economy struggles to overcome a three-year stock market nosedive, millions of layoffs, corporate scandals and waning consumer confidence, an alarming trend has emerged from the 1990s, when consumers binged on easy credit.

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