Middle-class family struggles in Spain’s crisis:
FUENLABRADA, Spain—Before the Spanish economic crisis hit, Mercedes Gonzalez and her family lived comfortably, she working in a shoe shop and her husband and second son in construction.
But one by one, over five years each of them lost their jobs.
Now, like millions of other middle-class casualties of the recession, the family of five scrapes by on welfare benefits, cash-in-hand cleaning work and the diminished salary of their eldest son, Juan Pedro.
"We didn't earn a huge amount but we weren't badly off. We had a normal standard of life," says Mercedes, 52, in the sitting room crammed with photos and trinkets in their apartment in Fuenlabrada, south of Madrid.
As the c...
Keep on reading: Middle-class family struggles in Spain’s crisis
FUENLABRADA, Spain—Before the Spanish economic crisis hit, Mercedes Gonzalez and her family lived comfortably, she working in a shoe shop and her husband and second son in construction.
But one by one, over five years each of them lost their jobs.
Now, like millions of other middle-class casualties of the recession, the family of five scrapes by on welfare benefits, cash-in-hand cleaning work and the diminished salary of their eldest son, Juan Pedro.
"We didn't earn a huge amount but we weren't badly off. We had a normal standard of life," says Mercedes, 52, in the sitting room crammed with photos and trinkets in their apartment in Fuenlabrada, south of Madrid.
As the c...
Keep on reading: Middle-class family struggles in Spain’s crisis
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