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Transcript: U.P. County Tops State Unemployment Rate
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- September 27, 2009
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LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
09-27-2009
U.P. County Tops State Unemployment Rate
Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time 13:00-14:00 PM
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LIANE HANSEN, host:
On the Upper Peninsula, there was some bad news for Baraga County, Michigan this past week. The Terex Handlers company will close its Baraga plant - 90 people will lose their jobs. Baraga County - about an hour and a half drive west from Marquette - already has a 24.5 percent unemployment rate. It's the highest in the state of Michigan and the third-highest in the country.
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