The New Face of American Unemployment
The manager of the wire mill in Scottsdale, Pennsylvania (pop. 4200 and dropping, 98% white, median income $32K, &quot;archetypal Rust Belt town&quot;) says “We’ll just about hire anybody that we can get our hands on if the person comes in drug-free and they show up for work on time.” They still have problems finding people. Who would move there?<p>This is the plight of small-town America.