>> sam, 48 years old. never married lives alone in denver, colorado after ten years was an appraiser with the same construction company he was called into the sales managers office last may. >> he just basically stated sam, you've seen the projects decrease in number and sorry to have to tell you, but, well, we're going to have to lay you off. i just kind of sat in stunned silence. >> now correcting state unemployment insurance and job hunting, sam is resigned to making half his own salary and doubts he'll ever again buy and car and take a vacation, like annual trips to disneyland and boating and fishing that his dad took him and his brother on. >> i don't think i'll see that again. >> sam's sorry is emblematic of a trend documented by the pew charitable trust and track the middle class babies like sam born in the mid 1960's.