Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati

The Enquirer will spend this year traveling a road where progress has slowed, or even stopped, for thousands of men and women who are struggling despite an economic recovery that’s now almost a decade old. A new company might fire everyone and hire new drivers or decide to cut his pay – now at $18.50 an Mathews, an AK Steel truck driver, drives on Route 4 through Middletown towards his home in Englewood. Story by Keith BieryGolick, photos by Meg Vogel and Kareem Elgazzar

Roscoe Anthony sat on the couch and laughed as his 1-year-old grandson ate a quesadilla for the first time.

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