Daughter goes to college, graduates, gets a job and her own apartment. Then we enter a period of financial turbulence. Daugher loses her job. Discouraged and broke after months of unemployment she moves back home.
Grownup children are returning home. Brothers and sisters moving in together. Families taking in grandparents. Friends living in the basement. Fueled by the dismal economy and high unemployment, more Americans — friends and families — are doubling up.
Some American stories of families coping with the effects of the economic downturn and finding new ways to live by sharing.
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