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In hard-hit town, some economic hope on horizon
Video: Signs of optimism as residents return to work and find ways to adapt to new reality.
Mixed feelings about Obama
After thrusting city into national spotlight, doubts linger. Story
About The Elkhart Project
The recession is a national story, but its effects are local and personal. Few cities have felt this more than Elkhart, Ind., one of the earliest to see recession.
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Suicide adds to the cost of the recession
Coroner presides over a sad tally, tracking a rising number of suicides that he believes are linked to the lingering recession.
As days without work pass, options dwindle
For Lawrie Covey and millions of other unemployed workers faced with losing their benefits, life remains a day-to-day struggle.
As jobs go away, disability claims soar
Advocates and officials say two main factors are driving the surge in filings: aging baby boomers and the downturn.
Troops’ new mission: Try to find work
National Guardsmen are coming home from Iraq to face a new enemy — an economic meltdown that took their jobs.
U.S. stimulus buoys U.K. plant’s workers
With some U.S. companies reaching out to foreign partners, some of the $787 billion stimulus package is crossing borders.
For Amish, recession is challenge, blessing
Factory job losses have hurt finances in the commnity, but downturn also has renewed focus on faith and family.
Counties feel the stimulus differently
If you want to win the stimulus sweepstakes, it helps to have one of the planet's nastiest toxic waste sites in your back yard.
Creating industrial diversity is hard to do
Hamstrung by an ailing RV industry, city is seeing firsthand the monumental task of clawing back from such a big economic hit.
The hope, and the hype of ‘green’ jobs
Around the country, officials, entrepreneurs, and even some of the biggest companies see dollar signs. But how close?
Graduating in to a hard-to-predict future
These five new high school graduates from Elkhart all expecting a bright future despite facing uniquely uncertain times.
Hard to let go for
freshmen’s parents
Each year, 1.8 million incoming freshmen head off to college. For their parents, it can be a time of loss and sadness.
Finding their way after high school
Video: Graduating into the “real world,” five teens find that adulthood is a balancing act with dreams countering reality.
Their own troubles
in their own words
Many of the city’s citizens face an uncertain economic future. The give voice to their problems and offer potential solutions.
Assembling a travel trailer piece by piece
Watch the manufacturing process in fast forward as workers take the vehicle from frame to finished product in time-lapse video.
Prisoners describe
the ravages of meth
In good times and bad, meth continues to hit northern Indiana hard. Three former addicts describe the drug's toll.
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