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Stress-testing the recovery: Following up

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Guy Gangl has mined at Keewatin since 1976. He says the current downturn feels a lot like the 1980s -- a time when some mines closed altogether and a lot of people left the region.
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After wrapping up the Stress-testing the Recovery series, All Things Considered followed up with a couple of the people most affected by the recession.

Both Mike Mohler and Guy Gangl lost their jobs during the downturn. Mohler used to sell radio ads in the Bemidji area, and Gangl mined taconite near Hibbing until the steel plant there cut operations.

Since, the national unemployment numbers were released today - ATC wanted to check back in with them to see how the national trends compare to two Minnesota cities hit hard in the recession.

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Guy Gangl
Guy Gangl has mined at Keewatin since 1976. He says the current downturn feels a lot like the 1980s -- a time when some mines closed altogether and a lot of people left the region.
MPR Photo/Bob Kelleher
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Mike Mohler, 56, lost his job as a radio advertising salesman in May 2008. He's been unemployed and looking for work ever since. Mohler looks over a list of nearly 100 businesses where he's filled out job applications.
MPR Photo/Tom Robertson