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Economic Casualties Pile Into Tent Cities

Kevin Shutt, 53, moved into a tent city near St. Petersburg, Fla., in March. He was laid off from his job waiting tables and then was kicked out of his apartment.(photo: Rod E. Millington for USA TODAY)

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. - Jim Marshall recalls everything about that beautiful fall day.

The temperature was about 70 degrees on Nov. 19, the sky was "totally blue," and the laughter from a martini bar drifted into the St. Petersburg park where Marshall, 39, sat contemplating his first day of homelessness.

"I was thinking, 'That was me at one point,' " he says of the revelers. "Now I'm thinking, 'Where am I going to sleep tonight? Where do I eat? Where do I shower?' "