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Trade Off: Stories of Globalization and Backlash

Is retraining worth it? Laid off paper millworkers weigh the benefits

by Sarah Gardner

Sep 6, 2017

Government programs are meant to help those workers get new jobs. But reinvention is hard.

The remains of the NewPage paper mill in Kimberly, Wisconsin. The mill closed in 2008, leaving 600 people out of work. Kimberly-Clark Corp. built the mill in 1889.

Hayley Hershman

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