Calling All Citizen Photojournalists: What Does the Global Recession Look Like?

Huffington Post readers around the world are capturing images of the global recession. Every month we'll feature a selection of photographs and allow readers to vote on their favorites.

You see the everyday changes brought on by the global economic slump. How has life changed in your community? What are the indicators that things aren't the same? Feel free to get creative.

Send your pictures to [e-mail] with your name and location in the subject line and a caption for each photo in the body of your email.

Below are just a few of the images that readers have already submitted.

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"I can't afford to love New York" -Clementine Gallot

Comments

[anthonysaluto]

after bloomington il council ignores needs for retailer parking meters to prevent all day parkers from suffocating 35 year suit retailer winnies menswear, a thrift shop takes the space and offers 1.99 tops, and any hardbacks at 1.50. the city is near broke and cant see it to boost jobs and save its own retail stores.

[oakley9]

Grays Papaya is the best.always the lowest prices and great hotdogs and fresh orange juice!
Love it and miss it.

[stargazer13]

America should take this time to reflect on our past

and then just maybe we can start over with a reality based way of life

where we care more for each other then profits

where a family is never homeless

where sick people are always cared for

I want to live where this and more take place

[smoore2614]

Me Too!!!

[jerrypl]

The global recession looks like we have entered an new paradigm where there are fewer middle class people, more crime, a diminished opportunity to receive a higher education, and then, once graduated, a tougher time getting a job that could pay for that investment in one's self. There will be fewer suburbs, empty homes, ghost town style exburbia, a shrunken GDP, a higher national debt, and less spending.

Unless, the US undergoes a new American Paradigm shift away from the monopoly-financial capitalist economy and back to a real-manuf­acturing-b­ased capitalist economy there will be no change we can believe in.

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[Richard Terk]

"Are education" or "Our education?" Perhaps, "Our public education system...?"

[theubermensch]

I feel that this is only the beginning. We have lost our values, and are still excessive. Are education sucks, and we are losing our intellectual creativity. People are too busy o facebook and twitter. You people need to get a life, and you kids of the boomers need to stop the lazy apathy. The U.S. and many other countries are on the downturn. The right wing christians who hate progress would also prefer the dark ages. This recession is far from over, and so is America's sense of innovation. Get off facebook and get out there and do something you generation whiners.

[Richard Terk]

"Are education" or "Our education?" Perhaps, "Our public education system...?"

[GravitonX]

I hate being the Grammar Police, but when someone starts criticizing the intelligence of others while making whopping grammar mistakes, somehow the point gets lost. Then again, what better way to show the decline in education than to show yourself as being one it's poster children.

[desertman]

Are education... indeed...