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10/26/09 4:00 PM

Day 135: Scandia, MN

On Scams, Mortgage Modification, and the Beauty of Bartering

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Since being laid off eight months ago, Deanna Steuernagel and Shawn Burke have become most disillusioned by the frequency with which they've encountered various scams specifically targeting the unemployed. Unscrupulous greed clearly holds no sympathy for the downtrodden. Considering the months of delay tactics Chase Bank has employed on Deanna's loan modification application, forestalling a decision until she completely depleted her savings, it would not surprise her to receive notice that she doesn't qualify for Obama's Hope Now program because this month she finally defaulted on her mortgage. 

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09/28/09 11:15 AM

Day 108: Eureka, CA

In Pursuit of Greenbacks in California's Emerald Triangle

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A friend in San Francisco had advised I would see real live hippies hitchhiking north on US-101 through redwood country this time of year--migrant agricultural workers of a peculiar variety. Of all those drawn to northern California's "Emerald Triangle" for the fall harvest of marijuana, the aged man I met in Eureka likely traveled the farthest, having just arrived on a Greyhound from South Carolina, fleeing depressed economic and mental states in pursuit of new opportunities in the cannabis trade.

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