washingtonpost.com Launches "Hard Times" Video Series by Emmy Award-Winning Producer Travis Fox

Business Wire, Oct 13, 2008

Highlights Economic Issues Most Important to Americans Nationwide Affecting How They Will Vote in the Presidential Election

WASHINGTON -- washingtonpost.com, an award-winning news and information Web site, has launched an in-depth video series by Travis Fox that helps to translate how the financial crisis and market turmoil are affecting individuals across the country. The series, "Hard Times," is a reflection on the economic issues that will be a top priority when citizens cast their presidential ballots.

"Hard Times is meant to be a hard-hitting, poignant series focusing on the pain, suffering and dashed hopes of people brought about by failed economic policies on Wall Street -- and how this all may affect the outcome of an historic presidential contest," said Eric Pianin, Politics Editor at washingtonpost.com.

Fox will travel across the country to talk with people in areas hardest-hit by home foreclosures, loss of retirement funds, unemployment, the rising price of food and gas and other economic challenges. Some of the places he plans to visit are the nation's oldest retirement community in Arizona, isolated towns in New Mexico where hunger abounds and a Michigan company whose workers have taken 50 percent cuts to keep their jobs.

He will also examine the reasons why many farming communities across the Midwest and towns with local banks have avoided the financial distress. The series will interview people working on John McCain and Barack Obama's campaigns on the ground in places like Colorado Springs to find out how they are talking about economic issues. The personal stories and perspectives presented throughout the series will collectively demonstrate the extent to which the financial crisis is impacting Americans' daily lives.

The series began Saturday in Santa Barbara, Calif., where Fox interviewed homeless people who are leasing parking lot space to live out of their vehicles. Today, Fox will travel to Las Vegas. The journey will end in Washington, D.C. around the November 4th election. The series is available at the following link:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/hard-times/

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