Business: THE DEPRESSED-AREA PROBLEM
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By working in partnership with the state, local businesses and—most important—with the workers themselves, local communities can do at least as much as Lawrence, Mass., which, by careful planning and aggressive selling of its assets, has cut its unemployed from 25,000 to 4,500 since most of its textile mills left. All the areas that have worked on curing their own problems agree on one basic fact: Government aid, if it is forthcoming, will not work without the will of a city to revitalize itself.
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