Rural Towns Are Aging, Cash-Strapped and in Desperate Need of Workers (www.wsj.com)

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With younger labor in short supply, aging workers often find themselves pulling double—or triple—duty to keep towns afloat

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Not everyone in rural towns is a right wing redneck

Not everyone, sure. Please post the name/location of your town so we can all have a look at it with Google Street View!

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why would anyone voluntarily doxx themselves on a platform full of angry extremists?

[-] riskable@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

In a town of 17,000 people I don't think naming it will dox them. There's enough of a population there that they could be any number of hundreds of weirdos 🤣

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in my town on Lemmy, but my town is much smaller than 17,000 people.

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