“The only jobs that will be left upstate NY will be on the apple farms.”
As in NW NJ, many of those jobs are “Americans need not apply”; I’m shocked at how many Hispanics our rural cmmunities have. The poverty industry employs many along the Hudson River (Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Albany); the welfare recipients need social workers, school teachers, cops, etc.
the welfare recipients need social workers, school teachers, cops, etc.
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In my county the government is the biggest industry. It is evident from the buildings. The best maintained and largest belong to the government. Our $80 million high school sits like a queen among them all.
It is my anecdotal observation in traveling across the nation that the schools are, almost without exception, the largest and most expensive structures in any community. In my county the SS school district ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement schools) is the single largest employer with largest payroll that far exceeds any other business in the county.