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Great Recession Survival Strategies: How do Slate readers get by when personal income dwindles? (Slate)

Quoted: One tempting avenue for bringing in the maximum cash possible is to turn to the underground or informal economy. Edgar L. Feige, an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been studying the underground economy for more than three decades and says that it?s exceedingly difficult to find hard numbers on how many people get by on income that?s unreported and therefore untaxed.