Based on those figures, the country’s now on track for 2.9 million foreclosure starts in this year alone.
John Robinson, a management consultant, got a pink slip nearly a year ago and he’s still unemployed. For him it was the beginning of the end of things as his family knew it. With his job gone and his wife still home on maternity leave he tried everything he could to get another job.
“I’m still unemployed so when the foreclosure notice came I wasn’t surprised. It was just another nail in the coffin of our middle class life,” he told The Final Call.
“I sold my car, now we take the bus and the train. We don’t eat out and we don’t shop. The holidays won’t be merry. I’m doing all I know how to keep my house. The American dream for me has become a nightmare.”
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