Throughout the country people are losing their jobs as companies struggle with decreased sales. Rising energy costs, a sagging stock market, and declining consumer confidence threaten to derail the nation's longest economic expansion. The incoming Bush administration is using the threat of RECESSION... to bolster the argument for massive tax cuts. And the Federal Reserve Bank has begun cutting interest rates. Local economists say as the nation goes SO TOO does Minnesota. Layoffs are hitting this region... people who assist dislocated workers say they're busier now than they've been in nearly a decade. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...