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Graham Slater, left, an official with the Oregon Employment Department, and state economist Tom Potiowsky, listen to a question at last week's Business Outlook Forum at Umpqua Community College. The men believe Oregon's recession is over but that it will take several years for the state and Douglas County to recover.
“This is the longest recession we've seen since World War II, but it's starting to look up,” Potiowsky said. “It may not feel like it because you're in the bottom of the pit right now ... but there's definitely signs here that this recession in the United States came to an end probably this summer.”
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