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Car Crash

Ann Arborites feel the industry's pain

by Vickie Elmer & Eve Silberman

posted 8/30/2009

Marcie Greenfield worked for Chrysler for more than twenty years, most recently commuting from Ann Arbor to Auburn Hills, where she managed product development research. But two years ago, at age fifty, she was laid off--with emotional and financial consequences so painful she compares it to a divorce.

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