| People Are Poor |
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| People are standing in long lines all over America. |
| The long lines are unemployment lines. |
| Unemployment lines are for people who have no jobs. |
| Millions of Americans have no jobs. |
| They used to have jobs. |
| But they got laid off. |
| They got laid off because of the recession. |
| The recession is in America. |
| The recession is in China. |
| The recession is in Europe. |
| The recession is all over the world. |
| What’s a recession? |
| A recession is a time when people have only a little money. |
| They don’t buy new things. |
| If they don’t buy new things, factories stop making new things. |
| Factories lay off the workers. |
| In a recession, people buy only necessary things, like food. |
| They don’t buy new TVs, new cars, or new homes. |
| They don’t buy new shoes. |
| They take their old shoes to the shoe repair shop. |
| They don’t go to expensive restaurants. |
| They go to fast-food restaurants. |
| They don’t go to the movies. |
| They watch TV. |
| They don’t go to Disneyland. |
| They go to city parks. |
| Everyone hopes the recession will end soon. |
