Samantha Bare, Cronkite News Service//August 16, 2012//

[caption id="attachment_49509" align="alignleft" width="575" caption="Crowds clog a street in downtown Yuma during Yuma Lettuce Days in March. Local officials question federal unemployment statistics of close to 30 percent for the...

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