Photo: #Anthony Morris, 49, a former truck driver from St. Paul, is out of work and has exhausted his unemployment benefits.
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Anthony Morris, 49, a former truck driver from St. Paul, is out of work and has exhausted his unemployment benefits. (MPR Photo/Dan Olson)

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Stress-testing the recovery

Stress-testing the recovery

Broadcast: Midday, 11/06/2009, 11:00 a.m.

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For some areas of Minnesota, economic recovery means overcoming unemployment rates that have reached double digits. Midday features stories from four cities with some of the highest jobless rates in the state: Hibbing, Bemidji, Albert Lea and Brainerd.

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  • Louis Johnston: Professor of economics, St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict. Co-author and revisor of 4th edition, "Principles of Economics" by Ben Bernanke and Robert Frank.

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