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“Not enough work” to “not enough help”: Evolution of the Adirondack job market

When the Adirondack industrial age came to an end in the 1970s, previously dependable jobs in mills and mines dried up, just as the state was creating the Adirondack Park Agency and land-use regulations that were perceived, rightly or wrongly, as devaluing private property. A decade of hardship and resentment ensued, which only began to […]

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