It’s west against east, the NY Times reports. Communities all along the Calif. coastline
have largely bounced back from the recession, some even prospering with
high-tech and export businesses growing and tourism coming back. At the same
time, communities from just an hour’s drive inland and stretching all the way
to the Nevada and Arizona borders struggle with stubbornly high unemployment
and a persistent housing crisis. And the same pattern holds the length of the
state, from Oregon to the Mexican frontier….
“This is really a tale of two economies,” said Stephen Levy,
the director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy. “The
coastal areas are either booming or at least doing well, and the areas that
were devastated still have a long way to go…..”
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