With the number of foreclosures and the cost of living steadily climbing, some working-class families are finding themselves moving back into their parents’ home or taking up residence with siblings. This is definitely not the lifestyle they had planned for themselves in the process of raising a family.
Prosperity lost: U.S. on way down
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 8:30 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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