Grosse Pointe Moms Club

Grosse Pointe Moms Club
Doug DuBois for TIME

Reinforcements
Club member Sandra Wiiki, seen above at her home in Harper Woods with her son Sam, worked from home as a designer for a company that supplies interior plastics to Ford until losing her job in March 2009. She's been busy taking courses in digital-arts animation at a nearby community college, with assistance from the state-run worker-retraining program No Worker Left Behind.

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