Jeff Brewer, Plant Supervisor at Hanson brink manufacturers, hopped on to a forklift to gather a load of bricks for a customer in Stanton, Ky., on March 11, 2009. Hanson's brickyard is full of inventory and they have had to lay off most of their hourly employees and stop manufacturing until their inventory is reduced. Powell County has seen one of Kentucky's fastest growing unemployment rates, at 4.1 percent. With that growth, the county's overall rate now sits near 10 percent unemployment.
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