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Issues of importance to a legislator, specifically relating to what is relevant to non-Urbanized parts of America

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Issues of importance to a legislator, specifically relating to what is relevant to non-Urbanized parts of America

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-Mass unemployment
-Public school funding
-Infrastructure
-Student debt
-Easier paths to legal immigration
-Corporate taxes
-Failing companies-To bail out, or not to bail out?

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In what way does this connect to the Fallows’ reports? What information does it offer in terms of immigrant experience?

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In what way does this connect to the Fallows’ reports? What information does it offer in terms of immigrant experience?

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Many of the problems explored in the Fallows' reports could be helped by welcoming immigrants as part of the community, and by making the path to legal immigration much easier.
-Immigrants are a very real population of young families or laborers or business owners, all of which are desperately needed by many small towns across the nation.
-The harder it is for people to enter the country legally, presumably the more undocumented immigrants there would be. This leaves immigrants open to having their labor exploited, because their employers can pay them less than minimum wage under threat of being reported, contributing to the unemployment of people living in those communities. (to be clear: this is the fault of the employer’s greed, NOT the immigrants who are being exploited!) Easier paths to legal immigration would help to reduce this, and help more immigrants to be fully paid and able to contribute to the local economy
-Towns within the 100 mile border zone may be more dangerous for immigrants, possibly contributing to less people moving to some of these small towns whose economies could benefit from more incoming people. 2/3 of the U.S. population and 9 out of the 10 biggest cites (by metropolitan area) are within this zone.
-This builds upon the info in the Dickerson article, demonstrating even more the ways in which the human rights of immigrants, and specifically immigrants from Mexico, are violated by the U.S. government.

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What kinds of issues does this small town have to deal with?

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What kinds of issues does this small town have to deal with?

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This article was about the conversion of the local high school of 2,800 students into a technical school to help with job preparedness
-Many low income families
-High dropout rates (before new curriculum was implemented)
-getting young people into the job market who may not have a college degree
-Giving student relevant experience to get above entry level jobs
-rising price of college

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What kinds of issues does this small town have to deal with?

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What kinds of issues does this small town have to deal with?

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-Manufacturing jobs
-Automation, offshoring
-Trying to increase tourism
-Trying to revitalize downtown
-Attract students to college so they spend more money there
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How does the report enhance or alter your understanding of an unfamiliar part of the United States?

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How does the report enhance or alter your understanding of an unfamiliar part of the United States?

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-There are possible creative solutions which many towns face rather than relying on bigger government to solve the issue
-Problems like job security and lack of skilled laborers can be improved by improving conditions for young people
-As prices rise, college does not make financial sense for a lot of people. Going straight from technical school to a job can actually be much more stable
-Progressive teaching methods are possible for public schools, but it is rare especially in underfunded areas

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How does the report enhance or alter your understanding of an unfamiliar part of the United States?

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How does the report enhance or alter your understanding of an unfamiliar part of the United States?

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-Just how common former factory towns are, and how alike many of their struggles are (mass unemployment, abandoned buildings, non-diverse economies)
-There are many common tactics for revitalizing a town that are used across the country
-One of the most important steps to revitalization is attracting young people and young families
-They don't just want to attract new people, but people who grew up there and moved away. Less people are living their whole lives in one town
-Many are now moving away from a few large factories and back towards many smaller businesses in order to be sucessful

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How does the report enhance or alter your understanding of an unfamiliar part of the United States?

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How does the report enhance or alter your understanding of an unfamiliar part of the United States?

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-Competing for businesses isn't new to Amazon
-They will make sacrifices to boost local GDP
-Diversifying the economy is essential, because if a company fails or pulls out of a town the entire town will go down with it if the town is reliant on the company
-Un-urbanized areas can still be tens of thousands of people. We can't just ignore these areas.
-At what point does it become like a Carnegie steel town?

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What kinds of issues does this small town have to deal with?

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What kinds of issues does this small town have to deal with?

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-Local economy failing
-Jobs moving elsewhere
-Dead buildings, lack of historic district which drives tourism
-Big businesses (GE in this case) moving out, leaving unemployment high

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Quinn and Elise