What was the impact on small businesses around that steel mill? The restaurants, the hairdressers, the grocery stores, the doctors, the dentists who relied on those employees. Devastation, devastation rate In Lordstown, Ohio, we once had a General Motors facility that employed 10,000 people. Six million square feet, made the highest quality products of any facility in America. Production was shifted to Mexico. Now that facility sits basically idle. (14:17–14:25)
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