In rural Oregon, middle-class life is slipping away

Each time Steve Keller picks up his newspaper he turns to the home foreclosure notices and, with mounting dread, searches for his name. He hasn’t found it. Not yet.

"I do see friends in there all the time," says the 51-year-old electrician.

Middle-class families like Keller’s with two jobs, a house and a 401(k) aren’t supposed to face these problems. But thousands are, especially in rural Oregon.

By Michelle Cole, The Oregonian

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