Valentina, I, personally, like to examine state of the things by what I can see; not statistics, news reports or campaign speeches. In Queens, NY, the situation is not improving. A person I know who worked for past years in construction, is out of a job since November. He is on the brink of losing his house. He also have heard that there were programs that Obama's stimulus was supposed to provide, but nothing applies to him.

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