Simon Hayter

Work in Progress: The Dream is Over: America in Recession

Jennifer Trisdale sells her designer Chanel purse on the side of California's I5 highway to help pay her bills.Anderson, CA.
   
Abandoned housing developments in Merced, CA.
   
Tent City, Sacramento, CA.
     
  
Detail of a sign in a boarded up business window in upstate New York.
   
The last business alive in McGill, Nevada; the local tavern.
   
Sandy Dallegres, 47, waits for the customers at the Black Bear Diner in Willow, California. Her tips are also down sigificantly.
     
  
Tent City, Sacramento, CA.
   
Tent City, Sacramento, CA.
   
Elmer Hibbar, 51, and his daughter Willow, 14, on their farm property near Orland, California. Hibbar, who is on a fixed disability income, says it is becoming harder and harder to make ends meet. "The dollar just doesn't go as far as it use to."
     
  
Sign in a soup kitchen window in upstate NY.
   
Clients use the emergency foodbank in Stockton, CA.
   
Abandoned shopping mall in Elk Grove, CA.
     
  
Real estate agent Mike Blower inspects damage in an abandoned forclosed property in Stockton, CA.
   
Dorothy and Daniel Martin are retirees who lost their home in the forclosure crisis in Stockton, CA.
   
Greeley, CO.