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	<description>The stories of ordinary Americans facing the hardest year.</description>
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		<title>Homeward Bound: Leaving the big city behind for a better life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detroit was the only home Stacy Marcell Harper had ever known, so leaving all that was familiar should have been difficult. But making the decision to leave was easy. It was everything that led up to that decision that was hard. As a divorced, single parent she wanted the best for her son Justin, 12, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Home on the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Walmart parking lot in Butte, Montana resembled a campground. More than twenty RVs, campers and travel trailers were parked on the outskirts when we arrived in the late afternoon. The vehicles varied from top-of-the-line, bus-shaped motor homes to old, creaking models that had seen far better days. Our 1986 Toyota Escaper fell toward the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In an Instant:&#8221; From Affluence to Bankruptcy in Denver&#8217;s Housing Meltdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob and Callae didn&#8217;t know it, but in 2007 their family was on the precipice of a devastating slide from affluence to bankruptcy. They lived in an upscale Denver neighborhood, were members of a country club and employed a nanny for their two young boys. Bob&#8217;s small business and hard work made their comfortable lifestyle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Difficulties: Kansas farmers caught between good times and bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Daniels says there are few things he loves more than a challenge, and this year he&#8217;s getting just that. He stands to lose more than $100,000 on his farm near Topeka, Kansas. It&#8217;s a story that began a year ago, strangely, in one of the most profitable growing seasons farmers there had ever seen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;That Piece of Paper&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[new directions learning academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one seems more surprised at what a single piece of paper can do for you than Cory Willingham. Had he known what life would be like, the constant struggle to find and keep a job that did not require a high school diploma, he might have done things differently. Twenty years ago, Cory dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maisie&#8217;s Pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Eskridge, Kansas on the Maisie DeVore Highway. It said so right on the big green road sign outside of town. We were on a tour of rural Kansas with friends from Topeka and were prepared to roll right through Eskridge without stopping. It wouldn&#8217;t have taken long; the town&#8217;s population is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Animal&#8217;s Best Friend</title>
		<link>http://thehardestyear.com/2009/07/an-animals-best-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around Lexington, Missouri they call Tina Bratcher the &#8220;Cat Lady.&#8221; The name makes her laugh, but she comes by it honestly. As a child, Tina&#8217;s mother refused to let her keep any of the animals she brought home. It wasn&#8217;t until she was all grown up with a place of her own, that Tina decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Patchwork of Hope: Donna Sue Groves, the woman behind barn quilts, faces the challenge of her life</title>
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		<comments>http://thehardestyear.com/2009/07/a-patchwork-of-hope-donna-sue-groves-the-woman-behind-barn-quilts-faces-the-challenge-of-her-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing a job and learning you have cancer would devastate just about anybody &#8211; except for Donna Sue Groves. She is a survivor. What helps Donna Sue fight is the love and support of family and friends, and the community she has helped create through a simple idea of painting colorful quilt squares on barns. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Walk: Cross-Country with Her Horse</title>
		<link>http://thehardestyear.com/2009/07/the-long-walk-cross-country-with-her-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the economic turmoil has played out in the lives of ordinary Americans, many face a long, difficult road ahead. Few, though, face a journey quite like Ann Byrns of Pelham, Massachusetts. She&#8217;s walking across the country with her horse. Ann&#8217;s small shipping business fell victim to the recession and took her life savings with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Lessons</title>
		<link>http://thehardestyear.com/2009/07/life-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up on a farm in rural Ohio, Jared Rowley would daydream about city life and one day going to college. It was a dream not shared by his parents. So after high school graduation, Jared was on his own. He made his way to Ohio University, but college life was far from what he [...]]]></description>
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