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

submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/economics@lemmy.world

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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 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Duh: Rural towns usually have terrible Internet. Who would want to live with that every day‽

That, and they're also full of MAGA-type Republicans that hate anyone and everyone who isn't exactly like them.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 15 points 3 months ago

With the way rural voters get disproportionate voting power its insane that rural broadband isn't everywhere. Shows how money interests take over rural interests in that party

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

I live in a very small town, and I have 1.5 Gbps internet, and haven't met a single trumper.