"Their optimism has been crushed by reality: They are still not working, or if they are working they're making a lot less money. You're either devastated or you're hurting, that's the range."
-- Carl E. Van Horn on the continued hardships faced by the millions who lost their jobs during the Great Recession. Van Horn teaches at Rutgers and is also a co-author of the just released study, Out Of Work and Losing Hope: The Misery and Bleak Expectations of American Workers
