Study: Mountain states hit hardest by recession

Utahns and others living in the Intermountain states who feel financially bruised, battered and downright discouraged by the nation’s recession have good reason to be out of sorts.

A new study by the Brookings Institution and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas found no multi-state region in the country has been harder hit by the economic crisis than the six Intermountain states.

"The sheer abruptness of the shift from hyper-growth early in the decade to a severe contraction in the last year," the report reads, "has spawned a sense of almost existential whiplash."

By Steven Oberbeck And Derek Jensen

The Salt Lake Tribune

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