Yesterday evening, at a Town Hall event in Kokomo, IN; Barack was introduced by Joe Nelson. Joe is a Kokomo local who was recently laid off from his job at the Kokomo Sanitary Pottery plant.
In this video clip, Barack discusses Joe's story, and how the loss of manufacturing jobs is affecting small towns across the country:
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