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Despite unemployment and the lost of her home,Andrea Clark considers herself a blessed and happy woman.Whythe cheerful attitude?Her troubles havebrought her closer to her family.Last year,Andrea’s husband,Rick,a minerin Nevadawas laid off.ThoughAndrea kept her job as a school bus driver,she knew that they couldn’t paytheir bill and supporttheir youngest of fivechildren,Zack,age nine,on one income.“At firsttheir church helped out,but you can’t keep that up forever,” Andrea says.ThenMichael,the eldest ofher four adult childrensuggested they move in with his family.For almost three months,seven Clarks livedunder one roof.Andrea,Rick and Zack stayed in the basement department,sharing laundry andsingle bathroom with Michael,his wife and their two children.The change cuttheir expenditures in half,but the new living arrangement proved toochallenging.When Andrea found a job with a school district closer to hermother’s home in West Jordan,Utah,the family decided to moveon.Packing up again with no picnic,Zack had to switch schools for the secondtime and space is even tighter.Andrea says that the moves themselves areexhausting and Rick is still looking for a job.The recession has certainlycome with more problems than Andrea anticipated,but she remains unfailinglyoptimistic.She is excited to spend more time with her mother.Anotherplus,rents are lower in Utah than in Nevada.So Andrea thinksthey’ll be able to save up and move out in less than 6 months.