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Tyson Foods employee Lizeth Yanes cries during an interview in Lexington, Neb., on Dec. 6. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert) |
An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs |
Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000. Nearly a third of the town’s population will be out of work, causing spinoff layoffs in local businesses and threatening to unravel the small town. After the plant opened in 1990, many came from Los Angeles, then stricken by recession, including Lizeth Yanes, who initially hated what she called “a little ghost town." But soon Lexington flourished, with suburbs sprouting among bur oak and American elm trees. Read more.
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