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“After the first of March, there will be a brief spurt of activity, when agricultural officials determine which remaining oranges are frost-free and good enough to go to market. But by mid-April, when the good fruit runs out, all activity, from picking to trucking, will stop, and there will be no more work until late October. If workers leave town ”” and if those who stay are jobless ”” the city’s economy will collapse.
Seeking to avert an economic meltdown, officials have come up with an innovative plan to not only address joblessness but to keep the workforce from abandoning the town. Invoking the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Depression-era Works Projects Administration, the citys elected officials ”” all of whom are Republicans ”” are seeking federal aid to put the idle labor force to work on local improvement efforts.”
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