Comments on: What’s your recession story?

By: Nandini Minocha

Nandini Minocha — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:50:10 +0000

I totally identify with you post Vidya. For us the recession hit home earlier than most when my husband’s company which provided services to large mortgage cos. went belly up in Oct 2007 as their clients were going bankrupt one after the other. My recruitment co. is suffering due to the global hiring freeze…….Thankfully my husband joined the workforce recently but across the country in the east coast. For now he has to travel back & forth…….hey such is life…..

By: Vidya Pradhan

Vidya Pradhan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:39:21 +0000

Scary? Take a look at this news -

A tent city is burgeoning in Sacramento, Calif., prompting local officials to consider whether such an encampment should be made permanent, with plumbing and all.

The primitive settlement sits in the shadow of the state capitol and is home to about 300 people who have no toilets or running water, creating unsanitary conditions that advocacy groups worry could promote diseases like cholera. With the downturn in the economy and more working-class people losing their jobs and their homes, the tent city is expanding.

Now that’s scary.

By: Geeta Padmanabhan

Geeta Padmanabhan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:13:10 +0000

This is a scary post. It’s difficult to read news about post-Bush America without that slow panic welling up in you. Just how did things come to such a pass?
However, a little voice keeps beeping inside. “Americans are resilient. They are hard-working. They will retrace the steps they have been led to follow. They will look back at the good times they had, grab that sense of humour and the never-give-up courage that saw them through recent tragedies and bounce back, with help. It is all a matter of time.”