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Originally Posted by urban_planner
Hey I have a few things to say about this again. First off its 2000 people out of 500,000 in the city. you do the math over all thats not a massive amount of people its a lot yes but percentage wise not really.
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Seems harsh on the face of it, but (with due respect to those whose lives and livelihoods are impacted by this idling) I'm inclined to agree. This isn't a good news story by any means but the early-80s recession saw three or four times as many steelworkers laid off, at a time when the local economy wasn't that diversified.