"It's not just the job that stops. Everything else stops with it."

Some people in the USA are learning what most of us already know.

"Those who were living at the at the top of the heap and who have fallen to the bottom, they don't know where to go for help, they don't know how to get that help. There's anger and frustration and a sense of entitlement," says Corky Senecal, who heads emergency housing services for Neighbor Impact, and has 30 years experience of providing services for the poor.

"The middle class is where it's really been decimated," she says.

Seven and a half million Americans have lost their job since the start of the recession.

Read the full story on the BBC.