The economic collapse has knocked hard and fast against many of the underpinnings of the middle class: homeownership, education, healthcare, employment and retirement, and against the economy of northeast Ohio in general. But it also has escalated change in the way we approach our individual economies and the way we, as a region, approach the bigger economy.

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Worsening Ohio jobless numbers released on day President Obama visitsJanuary 22, 2010
Slight uptick in manufacturing hiring can't outweigh service sector losses
Story by Bill Cohen

That's Brian Harter at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. In just the past year, nearly 200-thousand more Ohioans have lost their jobs.
 

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