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Welcome to the Working Class
As the financial industry celebrates its recovery from the Great Recession with huge bonuses, attention has turned increasingly to jobs. But that’s not a new concern: over the past three decades first the working class and then the middle class … Continue reading
Economic hope for the Mahoning Valley
On August, 21, 2008 General Motors’ CEO Rick Wagoner stood on a makeshift stage in front of a packed audience of Lordstown autoworkers, state and local politicians, and civic leaders from the Mahoning Valley to announce that his troubled global … Continue reading
Posted in Hunter Morrison, Youngstown
Tagged Auto industry, Deindustrialization, Mahoning Valley, Manufacturing, Unions, Youngstown
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