Both regions were struggling.

Other experts are not quite as pessimistic, arguing that the region is simply struggling through an unusually slow, uneven recovery from a long and deep recession.

The abrupt end of large-scale industrial coal mining presented incredible economic challenges to the town as the region struggled with massive unemployment in the 1960s.

The county and region are struggling economically.

In the 1980's I conducted a study of Federal job training programs in the Chicago area as the region struggled to recover from massive loss of industry.

Yet the southeastern region still struggles to attract much beyond the three job categories already there: defense, gambling and bioscience.

Every New England state except Maine got a new governor as the region, gripped by recession, struggles to find adequate governmental revenue.

But the region at large is struggling economically, he said.

The region may have struggled more than any other part of the country in 2001-2, as its manufacturing base withered.

While Kuta and other tourist meccas are bustling, remote regions are struggling.