and in this recession broadly and in jamesville, more men tom women lost jobs. there's a sense that the kind of job loss that happened in this small wisconsin city was typical of the country. that appealed to me. i also had a sense when i started to research the place that janesville fit nice lie interest the sweep of u.s. history. on that first reporting trip where i met stan milam, somebody else told me that i should find a youtube video of a speech that then-senator barack obama had given in the janesville assembly plant in february of 2008, when he was campaigning to try to win the wisconsin primary. and this was a very big, important economic speech in his campaign in which he out his assed, -- his agenda and he said two things in that speech. and i it just gave me got a bumps he said, first of all, basically, if the country elected him in followed his economic prescription, that this plant will be here for another 100 years. the other thing he said was, the promise of janesville is a promise of america. and i thought, if i'm going to write about this i wan

she talks be the closing of a gm assembly plant in jamesville, wisconsin, during the great recession.