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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you want people to live in your boring rural towns, you have to compensate them better.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Where else can I get boozed up and skrrt 65mph down the state highway in my uninsured, uncatted shitbox and throw beer cans at the cyclists (poor people) on the shoulder?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Where else indeed?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...and really good high speed Internet!

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Really good, reliable, high speed internet.