Workers in transition: In some of the hardest hit industries, the jobs may not be coming back

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May 25, 2010
Annie Baxter - Reporter, Bill Catlin - Editor, Todd Bjerstedt - Interviewee, Tom Stinson - Interviewee, Wally Tulare - Interviewee, Leigh Elder - Interviewee, Steve Hine - Interviewee, Olivia Bjerstedt - Interviewee
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MPR’s Annie Baxter reports on the negative impact that the economic downturn has had on various industries…and the hard choices it has left for those workers.

More than 150,000 jobs disappeared from Minnesota because of the recession. Job losses have gouged nearly every sector in the state's economy, but Minnesotans who swing a hammer got nailed especially hard. Some of them didn't see the blows coming, or realize how much they'd hurt.

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