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By Katie McCaskey, Geezeo.com
You may have heard of Elkhart, Indiana. It’s nearby neighbor is South Bend, known as the last stop on the Chicago commuter train and home of the University of Notre Dame. But seemingly sister cities South Bend and Elkhart couldn’t be more different. President Obama visited Elkhart in February and is due to visit again soon.
Why? Right now Elkhart is the “poster child” for our country’s economic woes. As of this writing the town is suffering from crushing 18% unemployment due mostly to the collapse of it’s main manufacturing sector. It is suffering from the dire effects of reliance on a single-industry economy.
In my opinion Elkhart suffers from the worst economic sin to befall a city or even an individual citizen: the unwillingness to rethink, re-imagine, and rebuild.
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