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Nevada grads worry about their futures

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February 2, 2012

A strong case could be made that the Silver State suffered the greatest damage from the Great Recession. Nevada is at the top of all the wrong lists - unemployment, foreclosures, state budget shortfalls. Today, we bring you the voices of college seniors in Nevada. They've survived university funding cuts and tuition increases and now they're getting ready to graduate into a job market that is unpromising, to say the least.

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