Check out Year of Hard Choices

I know you follow a lot of blogs out there, but some of the new voices popping up in our Year of Hard Choices blog are fascinating, personal, intimate…check them out and leave your comments.

Great stuff already from Jill in Moira:

If you’ve never been able to get a car loan, a tight credit market is all you’ve experienced. Vacations and retirement accounts don’t exist in the world of minimum-wage jobs. Being inured to deprivation makes want and need feel less shocking.

Shari chimed in with this:

This past winter the economic deterioration consequences for low-income families really raised its ugly head! Fuel, utilities, back rent – these became the most frequent requests.

And a question from Melinda in Saranac Lake:

As I was driving through some of the more remote areas of our Region last week, on my way from Saranac Lake to Watertown, I wondered how the folks living in communities such as Star Lake, etc. are surviving. What kind of jobs are they able to create when the population is so sparse?

Click over to their blog and chime in…

Tags: economy