What's it like to be unemployed in Burns, Oregon?
Two thousand people live in Burns, Oregon, two hours east of Bend, in Harney County. The raw unemployment rate in the region is 21.5 percent. So, of the 10 people eating lunch at the local truck stop on the west end of town, at least 2, statistically, could be out of work.
Mike Rust is one of them.
Story by Ethan Lindsey, radio journalist for Oregon Public Broadcasting
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