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Community must assess the work force

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DEAR EDITOR:

Let's see: our parents and grandparents worked at Copperweld, U.S. Steel, McDonald Steel, Republic Steel, not to mention Lordstown, which employed 12,000, and Packard, 15,000.

You want people to come here by creating 50 to 100 jobs? It's not going to work.

I told both my children to leave because the jobs are not here anymore; this was over 20 years ago. They sent those jobs to foreign countries. The domino effect took over. What's left? A retirement community with shopping and restaurants and no work force to employ. No one is inventing jobs or creating jobs for thousands of people anymore! Thank goodness we have an MCTC and TCTC. I hope these teenagers are going into labor jobs- they pay quite well. Not everyone is going into the tech industry- trades are where you go!

RUTH LILLEY

Niles

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