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How small communities navigate economic crisis and changing identity

Our small town lost our main employer last year and the city council meetings have become these angry shouting matches between people who want to attract new industry and people who want to preserve what's left of our character. My family has been here for three generations and I can see both sides but I don't know how to bridge them, and I'm watching my community tear itself apart.

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Shared survival needs are fracturing along different visions of what survival means, threatening the social fabric needed to implement any solution.

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