Alex Boerner

The Sunshine State: Jobless

Kerry Marinos, center, hugs her daughter, Ally Marinos, 15, left, while talking with her daughter's friend, Katie Streeter, 16, in her kitchen Wednesday afternoon in Stuart. In December, Marinos was laid of from her sales coordinator job, and now works part time at Publix, where she had been working a second job for the past two years. Her monthly income from Publix is not enough to cover her mortgage payments, and she is having difficulty finding another job. "I've always had two jobs, so this doing nothing all day is making me crazy," said Marinos. She gets phone calls from her mortgage company every day. She has recently applied for food stamps, is trying to sell one of her cars and is making other adjustments to conserve money. Her home has always been a gathering place for her kids and their friends, and she has always fed them, which has changed. "'There's never any food in the house,' they say. Normally everybody comes her and eats," said Marinos.
Jobless, Stuart, FL

Kerry Marinos, center, hugs her daughter, Ally Marinos, 15, left, while talking with her daughter's friend, Katie Streeter, 16, in her kitchen Wednesday afternoon in Stuart. In December, Marinos was laid of from her sales coordinator job, and now works part time at Publix, where she had been working a second job for the past two years. Her monthly income from Publix is not enough to cover her mortgage payments, and she is having difficulty finding another job. "I've always had two jobs, so this doing nothing all day is making me crazy," said Marinos. She gets phone calls from her mortgage company every day. She has recently applied for food stamps, is trying to sell one of her cars and is making other adjustments to conserve money. Her home has always been a gathering place for her kids and their friends, and she has always fed them, which has changed. "'There's never any food in the house,' they say. Normally everybody comes her and eats," said Marinos.