As workers with General Motors finally get to return to their jobs in Lordstown, there is, perhaps not so coincidentally, a feature about that plant and this area in Monday's edition of The Detroit News and how similar stories are occurring around the country.
The story, called "In the Shadows of Industry", compares the rise and fall of the Youngstown area with the steel industry and how many are now looking to the Valley's GM plant in Lordstown for hope.
Union leaders think some still don't fully appreciate Lordstown's importance to the area as a whole.
And as Lordstown resumes production with 2,500 fewer employees now than were there a year ago, many are seeing parallels all around the country. YSU Prof. Sherry Linkon, with the Center for Working Class Studies tells us, "As we're watching that shrinkage, it is not only the loss of another set of jobs here in the Mahoning Valley, but what might be the last set of what we might call really good working-class jobs."
But Linkon, who also participated in The Detroit News piece tells us while more and more of the nation's good-paying jobs require a college degree, there are fewer and fewer of them available.
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