Will the economy improve?
DIANA LEE GRODEN
Issue date: 4/13/09 Section: Campus News
The Bucks County community
has hardly been immune to the
nation's economic woes. Every
aspect of our lives seems to have
been touched by them.
Everywhere we turn, we seem to
run up against the fallout. The
very air is fraught with stress.
The financial landscape has
changed, becoming unfamiliar
and treacherous.
Like so many of us, Bucks student
Latonya Evans is feeling the
pinch in the tough economic
times. She works part-time at her
local "Y" but said it's getting
harder to pay her bills. "My
hours were cut back from 35 to
15 a week."
Though the county is faring
better than the nation as a whole,
its unemployment rate has
steadily risen to 6.5 percent. It
jumped 2 percent, or by about
one-third, over the last year.
And 1,668 of its families' homes
are in foreclosure. In Newtown,
that's one in 1,505 homes. In
Feasterville, it's one in 636.
Amid the uncertainty, loss,
and worry, the Centurion decided
to find out how people at
Bucks and those who live in the
area are faring and what they are
doing to cope. What we found
are in this
e d i t i o n ' s
pages.
An o t h e r
case is a
man from
B r i s t o l
B o r o u g h
who started
a blog that
chroni c l e s
his job loss
and ultimately
succ
e s s f u l
efforts to
find another
one.We heard
from students
who
are experiencing cutbacks and
losing jobs they counted on to
help defray tuition expenses.
They share the ways they found
to save money. Bucks President
James Linksz, and Matt
Cipriano, director of Student
Life, weigh in.
Using their credit cards to the
hilt, some students owe thousands
of dollars. Also, parents of
students worry about their dwindling
savings, which they had
worked so hard to put away for
their children's college education.
With the ranks of the unemployed
swelling, displaced
workers flocked to the college's
has hardly been immune to the
nation's economic woes. Every
aspect of our lives seems to have
been touched by them.
Everywhere we turn, we seem to
run up against the fallout. The
very air is fraught with stress.
The financial landscape has
changed, becoming unfamiliar
and treacherous.
Like so many of us, Bucks student
Latonya Evans is feeling the
pinch in the tough economic
times. She works part-time at her
local "Y" but said it's getting
harder to pay her bills. "My
hours were cut back from 35 to
15 a week."
Though the county is faring
better than the nation as a whole,
its unemployment rate has
steadily risen to 6.5 percent. It
jumped 2 percent, or by about
one-third, over the last year.
And 1,668 of its families' homes
are in foreclosure. In Newtown,
that's one in 1,505 homes. In
Feasterville, it's one in 636.
Amid the uncertainty, loss,
and worry, the Centurion decided
to find out how people at
Bucks and those who live in the
area are faring and what they are
doing to cope. What we found
are in this
e d i t i o n ' s
pages.
An o t h e r
case is a
man from
B r i s t o l
B o r o u g h
who started
a blog that
chroni c l e s
his job loss
and ultimately
succ
e s s f u l
efforts to
find another
one.We heard
from students
who
are experiencing cutbacks and
losing jobs they counted on to
help defray tuition expenses.
They share the ways they found
to save money. Bucks President
James Linksz, and Matt
Cipriano, director of Student
Life, weigh in.
Using their credit cards to the
hilt, some students owe thousands
of dollars. Also, parents of
students worry about their dwindling
savings, which they had
worked so hard to put away for
their children's college education.
With the ranks of the unemployed
swelling, displaced
workers flocked to the college's
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