final paper idea

for my final paper, I am going to do a localization story about how the economy has taken a toll on our local region. For example, I know someone who works for Cooper BLine and although they had a record year in 2008 sales wise, they had to do 2 rounds of layoffs. I was also going to use a lady that i know who has been employed by a bank for the past 20 years and she was recently fired and replaced by a younger, cheaper employee.