My mom got laid off from her job today. She works for CTDI which has a contract with Qwest, but Qwest is merging with another company or something so all the employees are being laid off. She's been working there for years and many other employees have been working there for over 20 years. I don't really know what to say about this except that I'm worried about my family's financial situation right now. My mom was making $20 an hour from her job (which was what my dad was making with a full and part time job put together). She was really lucky to find that job since she only has an elementary school education. Now she's worried she won't be able to find anything that'll pay even close to that. I'm probably going to take out a loan to pay for school from now since my dad won't be able to pay for it.