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More than 40 years later, Judy Shaw is back where she started. This fall, she re-enrolled at Normandale Community College -- the same place she began her post-secondary education back in 1968.   


Shaw is going back to school because she's one of the more than 200,000 Minnesotans currently out of work. Over the next few weeks we'll be talking with some of them about the ways unemployment is transforming their lives.  


MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Judy Shaw.

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More than 40 years later, Judy Shaw is back where she started. This fall, she re-enrolled at Normandale Community College -- the same place she began her post-secondary education back in 1968.   She is going back to school because she lost her full-time job more than two years ago.

More than 40 years later, Judi Shaw is back where she started. This fall, she re-enrolled at Normandale Community College -- the same place she began her post-secondary education back in 1968.   She is going back to school because she's one of the more than 200,000 Minnesotans currently out of work. Over the next few weeks we'll be talking with some of them about the ways unemployment is transforming their lives.

How losing a job changed one woman's life

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