CBS: Michigan family delivers papers to get by
I just watched a report on CBS Evening News about a Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., family that is getting by with the help of food stamps, a part-time business, and a newspaper route in the aftermath of auto industry layoffs.
For those of you who check in from other communities and need a geographic reference, this story was filmed practically in my back yard. Grosse Pointe Woods is suburban Detroit. My hometown of Monroe, near the Ohio-Michigan state line, is a smaller city just south of the metro Detroit area.
You’ll find the correspondent’s blog report here.
At one point during the interview, the couple, Mike and Ruth Remenar, was asked “Do you consider yourselves middle class?”
Their response: “Not any more.”
(Update: the video and news story are now posted.)
Posted: June 24th, 2008 under In the Blogosphere, In the News, Unemployment.
Comments: 1
Comment from john
Time: June 24, 2008, 7:39 pm
what are the odds they have three cars, a house that’s way too big and an ARM…