Is anyone else feeling the effect of this economy in your job?

As we all know this economy sucks right now....in my are of NC though its extremely bad. Our local hospital just permanently laid of 60 employees ranging from housekeeping to nursing departments. At the LTC facility I work at we are feeling it too....we are not very big...we have less than 100 beds and are on low census AGAIN...so our administrator and DON have told us nurses that we have to clock out for an hour in our shift ...every day ..every shift...the cna's take the regular 30 min...and all other depts including the office staff, housekeeping/laundry and dietary are to take an hour too.....This is putting a major hurting on my paycheck and they dont want to let me use my earned time to make up the difference. I have put in some apps for prn or pt work in other facilities to no avail thus far....I need to make up the difference in what I am losing . What bugs me about this is that on my shift which is 2nd...I do charge which includes my 2 big med passes, tx's, any admissions we get, calling the doc, charting galore, skin sweeps, dealing with the pharmacy, the lab, and families nonstop. An hour is impossible for me to do. 30 mins is hard for me to do b/c on top of my 8 hrs of work I get stuck with 4 hours of leftovers from day shift most days. My response to this hour demand was " ok...but dont come fussing to me when stuff isnt done or passed on or completed like it shoudl be." ...and omg....has stuff been messed up! important orders have been missed for important appts...like ct scans and mri's.....none of those orders belong to any of my patients luckily but still those nurses never picked up the orders and thus appts have been rescheduled and missed d/t this . I just wanna know if anyone else out there is dealing with this same thing in the nursing field and how you are handling it. I budget my money as it is..but now its even tighter. It wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt for the state eating me up in taxes after the insurance company eats my money up....I have to pay 251.00 every 2 wks out of my check for insurance for me, my baby, and my hubby. Insane!!!!! It went up 100.00 from last year and I expect it to go up again at this years renewal in november. Me and my coworkers on my shift have come up with a way we deal...since we can wear any type of uniform we bring in our uniforms and shoes that we no longer wear or dont fit and we all trade out....we have been growing some vegetables and fruits too and bringing in the extras for each other at work. One of my patients family owns a well known produce business and her hubby is always bringing us veggies and watermelons which we all share among each other and our residents if they want some.......thats just how we are dealing with it at the moment.