Economic crisis creating family crisis

Posted by Yulun Hung
Written by Melissa Smith
(Financial Article 1)

TRAVERSE CITY -- Phone lines at the Women's Resource Center in Traverse City are always open for those individuals in need of its services, but lately calls have been increasing as the economy's status is decreasing.
"I think it started for many of our clients a year, year and half ago. Obviously the number of requests have really skyrocketed in the last six months and we don't know exactly where they'll go from here," says WRC executive director Jo Bullis.
Bullis is talking about families facing domestic violence linked to their financial crisis, who are desperately turning to the center.
In fact, between October and December of last year, the center experienced a 35% increase in the number of people requesting financial and emotional support.

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