Responding to the Economy

Honestly my parents filed for a divorce right as the economy problems started happening.
So, for me, my mom and dad's lack of money stems from both their choice in divorcing and
the economic slump. My dad exlpained to me yesterday that this is the slowest hay season in 15 years. He unloads trucks with a forklift that is specifically for hay and is the only other guy in the northstate who does it. He said that he only has a truck every other day, when before I remember he had at least two trucks a day - 7 days a week. My mom works for American Medical Bill Review, and is completely stressed because of a merge that her company did. She is an IT manager, and her responsibilities doubled. So her workload is atrocious and i'm beginning to wonder if she's going to have health problems because of it. She still makes the same, her salary is about $55,000 a year. My sister finally got a job after a year of looking, and even then she only gets 25 hours a week. The Economy is making me depressed, my boyfriend also just lost his job. He was a temp for the school district, and they were thinking about keeping him until they had major budget cuts and had to let people - even much need people - go.