Economy and Preschool

I had a conversation over the holidays regarding a great depression. I was clearly the minority with my views. I tend to think the economy is worse than a lot of conservatives.
My brother once told me "Just because you are not depressed doesn't mean that your neighbor isn't!" I think I can't keep living like this isn't a real issue for so many people and their families.
I always say that money doesn't make me happy, as long as my babies are healthy and fed, we will be fine. I am not living in fear of the economy. At the same time, it is so easy to say that when I still have a roof over my head and I can pay my gas bill. And if there is a great depression then my babies could go hungry and we may not have healthcare like in the '20s. And heaven forbid we act like this isn't an issue that people already are dealing with in the rest of the world, starving children and unafordable headlthcare. Maybe it is just easy for the lower, middle, and upper classes to forget it.
I am not debating on whether the crisis can be fixed before it gets to a great depression. I am just saying that there needs to be an awareness of something beyond ourselves....oh my goodness this is true with so many issues but that goes without saying.
This is very-very small compared to what most are suffering but I got a little taste of how the economy will start to effect every household in some way or another.
I got an email from Mags preschool, let me note that it is one of the top preschools in LR with a waiting list each semester...that sounds pretentious but I am really just making a point that the following is out of character for the program, a school that shouldn't in normal economic circumstances go through the following hardships. The email read that one of their next semesters preschool classes only has two children registered and they encouraged us to solicit parents and children to the program. I know of several programs, top preschools here in LR that in years past never had trouble filling their rosters; and are now closing their doors. This makes me so sad. Not because we will be inconvenienced, not just because Mimi wouldn't be able to follow in Mags footsteps in the same program with our same beloved teacher.
But mostly because, what do all of those teachers do? I am sure it will be hard to find another job at a preschool with the need so low. What about the directors and the assistance and the substitute teachers? What about the working parents that depend on their all day care?
I haven't heard anything about the closing of their doors, anything that big but I do know where low enrolement can lead.
It is not the end of the world if my child can not go to preschool, I know. But I am not so nieve to think this problem is not much, much bigger than what was in that short email.