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All three networks filed features on economic hard times. For its Hitting Home series, CBS had Sandra Hughes go mawkish to illustrate the heartbreak of eviction after mortgages are foreclosed. Former homeowners turned tenants often have to give up family pets. Hughes showed us poignant pooches in the animal shelters of Riverside Cal, where foreclosures have climbed by 228% in the past year. NBC's Where They Stand chose the public policy route instead, as Andrea Mitchell contrasted Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton on their foreclosure platforms: he would offer $10bn to help distressed homeowners; she would offer $30bn. Both have close ties to Wall Street financiers, Mitchell pointed out, having received $6m each in campaign contributions "from investment banks and the securities industry."
ABC's economy feature for its Kitchen Table series concentrated on small business. Betsy Stark profiled a distressed family-owned display fabricator in Troy Mich that has had to lay off ten of its 23 workers, increase their healthcare deductibles, shorten its work week and dip into personal savings to meet payroll. "Is there something in this hard time that makes you hopeful?" she asked boss Steve Dearing. "By the grace of God we go on."
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