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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many towns went downhill after the giant steel mills shut down.  The towns couldn’t survive after that.  The area became depressed.   The counties need business development on a wide scope.  [/quote]+1. The 1980s were disastrous for the Pittsburgh region particularly. Between 1980 and 1983, approximately 95,000 manufacturing jobs were cut from a labor force of one million. Unemployment was as high as 27 percent in some areas, dropping only when thousands of workers left the region to find work elsewhere.[/quote]

Exactly this. And our corrupt elected officials, who were and still are bought and paid for by big business interests, let it happen to.

In a country that actually cared about its citizens, companies like Apple would be forced to open factories here or else pay exorbitant tariffs on every product they import from countries where they employ slave labor and/or take advantage of countries will regressive labor and environmental laws.[/quote]

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