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Straight in 2008

By Sue Doh Nem

Jackson Free Press | December 27, 2007

'Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the nation, not a consumer spent a dime, because of financial desolation. A broke employee re-sold Christmas gifts to buy gas for his automobile. Holiday poverty is very surreal.

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