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Tales Of The Recession's Effects

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When historian Studs Terkel wanted to know how people really felt about their jobs, he traveled with a tape recorder and asked them.

 

Rana Khoury recently took a similar tack, except she wanted to know how people felt about the lack of good jobs, about losing their homes and about struggling to escape poverty in the wake of the Great Recession.

A Northwestern Ph.D. candidate, Khoury looked to her home state of Ohio for insights we might apply more broadly. Khoury shares takeaways from her interviews with 50 Ohians, collected in her new book: As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.