MSNBC has been running a series of reports about the impact the recession is having on the city of Elkhart, IN. Elkhart has been hit particularly hard by the loss of jobs in the RV industry which had become the lifeblood of the local economy for decades. Now, with gas prices at record levels and fewer people investing in the gas guzzling RVs produced in Elkhart, the city has been struggling.
Jennifer Holderread is a resident of Elkhart who has been dismayed by how the city and its people are being portrayed on the Project Elkhart series on MSNBC. She contacted me on Facebook in an effort to get the word out about what is really going on in the city. The following story below the fold is the first of what I hope to be regular dispatches from the front lines of the recession in Indiana.
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