Over the past year Minnesota based Hutchinson Technology International has cut more than three thousand jobs -- 40 percent of its workforce. HTI as the company's known has been battered by changes in technology that cut demand for its main product, a key component of computer disk drives..... But the firm's fortunes are improving, and that's good news for the small towns where the company is one of the biggest employers around. Minnesota Public Radio's Cara Hetland reports:
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