JANESVILLE â?? Flooded by workers displaced from General Motors, its suppliers and other non-automotive manufacturers, the local economy is expected to sputter in the short term.
How it fares in the long term, however, will likely be a matter of community attitude and hard work.
â??There will be short-term economic struggles, and weâ??re already in a recession,â? said Steven Deller, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at UW-Madison.