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So today we in the newsroom received what we call a budget line, which basically is a preview of a story we haven't seen yet. It read like this: "In a sign that the economic downturn is hitting hard among Latino immigrants, more than 3 million of them (sic) stopped sending money to families in their home countries during the last two years, the Inter-American Development Bank said Wednesday." Without waiting for the rest of the story (it was going to take hours, time we didn't have if we were going to get local comments), we got on the phone and hit the sidewalks to try and find out to what degree this trend has affected Kern County. The first thing we learned, halfway into our first dozen calls, is that a lot of people who work at businesses that wire money to other countries don't care to speak to newspaper reporters. The next thing we learned is that, among those who do care to speak to reporters, there has been no noticeable change in the amount of money being sent...
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