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(2 Apr 2014) VOICE-OVER:
LIKE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, ROB MCGAHEN AND JEREMY HORNING THOUGHT THEY WERE SOLIDLY MIDDLE CLASS.
THE FORMER BOEING EMPLOYEE AND WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS WORKER BOTH HAD FULL-TIME JOBS AND WERE BUSY PLANNING THEIR FUTURES.
THEN, THE GREAT RECESSION HIT ...
SOUNDBITE: Rob McGahen, former Boeing worker
"Being unemployed? Even with an MBA, all my experience that I had, nobody was calling me ..."
SOUNDBITE: Jeremy Horning, Returned to School After Losing Job:
"It was kind of spooky to go from working 70-plus hours a week to nothing a month-and-a-half before my wedding."
THE RECESSION ELIMINATED 8.7 MILLION JOBS _ MANY OF THOSE MIDDLE-INCOME ...
SOUNDBITE: Jacob Hacker, Yale Economics Professor
"For most Americans, middle class is more than an income category, it is a aspiration, a way of life. It's based on the idea that if you work hard and you do right by your families, you've have basic economic security, the ability to own a home."
BUT THOSE PILLARS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS DREAM WERE UPROOTED.
FORTY PERCENT OF AMERICANS NOW CONSIDER THEMSELVES LOWER-MIDDLE OR LOWER CLASS, COMPARED WITH JUST 25 PERCENT SIX YEARS AGO.
HORNING WENT BACK TO SCHOOL AND NOW WORKS AT A CALL CENTER, PART-TIME ...
SOUNDBITE: Jeremy Horning, Returned to School After Losing Job:
"In that two years // to when I could actually start working again, my wife and I pretty much didn't do anything. "
WORRIED ABOUT JOB SECURITY, MCGAHEN BOUGHT A BAR WHILE STILL HOLDING DOWN HIS DAY JOB AS A PURCHASING AGENT WITH BOEING.
BUT THE RECESSION TOOK IT ALL ...
NOW IN PENSACOLA, FLORIDA WITH HIS WIFE, MCGAHEN IS PAINSTAKINGLY TRYING TO REBUILD THEIR SAVINGS BY WORKING AT A SUPER MARKET ... IN A JOB THAT RECENTLY BECAME FULL-TIME.
SOUNDBITE: Rob McGahen, former Boeing worker
"It is tough, it still is. It is something I think about not only all day and every day, but all the time."
THE SLOW PACE OF THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY LIFT MORE PEOPLE BACK INTO THE MIDDLE CLASS ... BUT SCARS
FROM THE GREAT RECESSION ARE LIKELY TO LAST A LOT LONGER ...
TRACY BROWN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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