Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/some-find-silver-lining-in-dark-economic-cloud Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The economic downturn isn't all bad for everyone. Paul Solman reports on some Americans who have seen their quality of life increase. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: But here now is our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, with a report on the bright side. It's part of his special series on making sense of the downturn.PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour economics correspondent: You could say Steven Taylor's world was turned upside-down in more ways than one when he lost his software job last summer. STEVE TAYLOR: I wasn't on much of a time crunch, and it allowed me to open up my normal gym habits. PAUL SOLMAN: Taylor shed some 30 pounds — before, after — and has now been hired as a personal trainer. For months, though, he was just another sobering statistic: one of some 3.5 million net jobs gone since 2007, nearly 600,000 last month alone, grim, but at least trim.And Steve Taylor isn't the only person out there trying to positively reframe the catastrophe these days. Consider this movie short that's played at film festivals all over the world and has more than a million hits on the Internet, where we found it. BUSINESS OWNER: I need two certified public accountants? PAUL SOLMAN: The humor, of course, is that many feel Wall Street's pain as pleasure. BUSINESS OWNER: One chief financial officer? That's it for today. Gracias.