12 People Left Behind During America's Recovery

12 People Left Behind During America's Recovery
A U.S. mail carrier walks her route in Santa Ana, Calif. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service wants to stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion a year. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
A U.S. mail carrier walks her route in Santa Ana, Calif. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service wants to stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion a year. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

While many of the richest Americans are raking in money, some people are actually worse off now than when the recession officially ended in June of 2009.

Take public school teachers, for example. There were 354,800 fewer local government education workers employed in February than at the end of the recession, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A number of other groups have had a similar experience. Perhaps that should come as no surprise when the top 1 percent of households by income captured 121 percent of all income gains between 2009 and 2011, according to recent research by Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

Check out some of the people left behind by the recovery:

1. The Black Woman

12 People Left Behind By The Recovery

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