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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 12 > Hard times

Hard times

Harney County is suffering. As the recession deepens, the unemployment rate in this rural area of the state is climbing and there are few jobs to be had. How are residents getting by?

By Story by Lily Raff, Photos by Melissa Jansson / The Bulletin
April 12, 2009

BURNS —

In 1973, a young Steven Grasty had recently moved here from Ontario, on Oregon’s eastern border, to work at an auto parts store. Fresh out of school, he earned $350 a month — plenty of money to pay the bills and take his new wife out to dinner.

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