Businesses in depressed Indiana town doubt Washington can help

Surviving economically in downtrodden Elkhart, Indiana, may require doing some things you don’t want to do. “Here in Elkhart, I’ve never seen things as bad as they are,” lifelong resident Yvonne Sell said Tuesday. “When you open the newspaper, unless you want to be a topless dancer, there’s nothing.” Elkhart became the poster child for the nation’s economic downturn when President Obama visited there Monday and then mentioned it several times during his first White House press conference

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