Scenes from the recession

[BankruptPinoy]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/scenes_from_the_recession.html

Scenes from the recession
The state of our global economy: foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, layoffs, abandoned projects, and the people and industries caught in the middle. It can be difficult to capture financial pressures in photographs, but here a few recent glimpses into some of the places and lives affected by what some are calling the "Great Recession".

[robivi3]

Really excellent photo spread, tells the story as it is... wow.

[sophia]

Wow.... how sad....

[banca rotta]

We beat this before and we will beat it again!!!

[AngelinaCatHub]

[BrokeinCA]

Very heartbreaking.

[OhioFiler]

Certainly some compelling images. However, I think many of them are not necessarily indicative of a recession. Especially the one with the neswpaper boxes. Only a journalist could see that picture and somehow relate it to economic hardship.

This is a good example of propaganda. The viewer is led to assume each of the images is somehow related to the recession when in fact we don't know if any of them are actually related.

What did a job fair in China look like 5 years ago? I can certainly find examples of building projects that failed before completion during the best of times.

Some pretty good photography though.