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Source: Mark Barrett, ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 11/2/16
Virtually every longtime resident of the Swannanoa Valley either has lost a job because of free trade or knows someone who did. Beacon Manufacturing alone employed more than 2,000 people making blankets in the middle of the 20th century, but cited foreign competition when it closed in 2003... For more of this story, click here.
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