I’m surprised at many of the comments on this thread. Many sound like they come from Barrack Obama supporters, that the job losses were just natural events and the jobs are gone and they’re not coming back.
Actually, the jobs and industry losses were due to US government polices and were totally predictable, and many will come back if the voters continue to support, and grow in support, of President Trump and his polices.
This article does not discribe things that happen because of free trade. WE DON’T HAVE AND NEVER HAD FREE TRADE. Some of these negatives might be in some part due to GOVERNMENT MANAGED TRADE, not free trade.
It is instructive on several points:
communities are playing with fire when they are based almost entirely on one big industry rather than many small ones;
people need to GtFO of places like this and go where the jobs are. N. Dakota, SD, Montana etc.