Hard times hit heartland
The turmoil on Wall Street has come to the Pit Stop, a bar in the blue-collar town of Marengo, Iowa, CNNMoney reports. That’s where Al Powell spent a recent Sunday afternoon thinking about his future after he and his wife were laid off from their assembly line jobs at the nearby Whirlpool factory. “There’s a lot of pain going through that place right now,” said Powell, sipping a $2 Bud while the juke box played “Chicken Train” by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. “A ton of people got hurt this year.”
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