The three-year, $620 million project is providing jobs in the country's most depressed region.

This is not a statistic you would associate with an economically depressed region.

It's not going to be the only good town in a depressed region anymore.

She says it is about the best job she could find in this economically depressed region of the state.

But finding jobs in a depressed region will not be easy, she says.

The serpent-mound resort would bring hundreds of job to a depressed region.

The loss of jobs at the plant in Lawrence would injure an already depressed region.

Or it might not, especially for a depressed region like western New York.

Similarly, in the North there are prosperous areas within otherwise depressed regions.

But he added that in depressed regions, "the local bank is often no more acceptable to a credit agency than the hospital."