At the height of the 2008 economic crisis one person, every 4 seconds, lost their job, every 13 seconds a family lost their home to the foreclosure crisis, and murder-suicides were on the rise. Our country is still in peril. Elements of a perfect storm have been churning up across the economic horizon since 9/11, when two planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the New York Trade Center. Add into the mix the Dot-Com bust, the subprime mortgage crisis, and the accounting fraud debacle where corrupt CEOs such as Kenneth Lay of Enron and Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom sucked the yolks out of retirement nest eggs some Americans spent an entire lifetime building. An avalanche of heartless crooks such as Matthew B. Cox and Bernard Madoff also emerged, squashing American dreams by conning the financial community and preying upon unsuspecting investors, the elderly and less educated with their million and billion-dollar scandals. But the current attacks leading to these problems have gotten even more personal. A trail of carnage has been left behind as hundreds of thousands of Main Street Americans have been kicked to the curb by Corporate America, often causing them to live on the streets or sell their personal belongings in an attempt to keep the lights on in their homes. The layoffs come, sadly, at a time when individual personal wealth has plummeted. The corporate greed of CEOs is the perpetual driver of these devastating actions. Somewhere in the middle of all this insensibility, the fragility of human life has gotten lost in the shuffle. Part I of Dumped takes a historical look at events leading to the 2008 economic crisis and what got us into this mess. Subject matter experts are unleashed in Part II, Because You Matter: Tending to the Internal Stuff and Part III, What's Your Bailout Plan? Dumped is a source of inspiration and information, providing tips and advice on a range of topics from depression and suicide to foreclosures, bankruptcy, budgeting and the job search. While attempting to appeal to the consciousness of Corporate America, the book seeks to lend support to the unemployed, promote a global dialogue that may lead to solutions to our economic crisis, and help the jobless in America develop their own bailout plan.