Yana Paskova - Photojournalist

Economy

The world scrambled resources and hope as an economic downturn, beginning in 2007, crashed stock markets, evaporated personal savings, and shook job and home security in America and abroad.

Old cars, including those traded for more fuel-efficient ones as a part of the government's Cash for Clunkers program, lie on top of each other as an automobile is lifted in preparation of being crushed at the Hackensack Auto Wrecker and Repairs in Hackensack, New Jersey on Thursday, July 30, 2009.
  
A shopper gazes at the Anthropologie store's holiday display in Rockefeller Center the day after Thanksgiving, (or "Black Friday," known for attracting masses of shoppers with discounted deals,) on November 28, 2008 in New York City.
  
Traders work frantically on the Agriculture Trading floor (near the corn futures, options and bean sector) of the Chicago Board Of Trade June 19, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.
     
  
A long shadow precedes a businessman walking home from work on Wall Street late at night in Manhattan, New York on Tuesday, September 16, 2008. The previous day, stocks fell 4.4 percent, dragged by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch.
  
A businessman runs rushed on Wall Street in Manhattan, New York on Tuesday, September 16, 2008. The previous day, stocks fell 4.4 percent, dragged by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch.
  
(L-R) Livery cab drivers Samuel Dankwah, Ernest Campbell, Ronald Saba and Yves Bertrand wait for their clients in front of the Lehman Brothers building in Midtown in Manhattan, New York on Tuesday, September 16, 2008. Stocks fell 4.4 percent, dragged by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch, the previous day.
     
  
Sixty-nine-year-old Lawrence Harris, a retired bank messenger, poses for a portrait in his East Flatbush home on Thursday, April 09, 2009 in Brooklyn, New York. Harris is a victim of a foreclosure scam and is fighting against losing his house.