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One big project Mason is helping on is revitalizing Main Street. Already seven new businesses have opened, but three of them can only do so part time, because the local entrepreneurs need to keep their regular full-time jobs to stay on their health insurance plan.pic.twitter.com/NcjL4Xctrd
Coon Rapids is home to Frohlich's Super Valu, a family-owned grocery store that's been in business for 100 years. Dollar General just moved into town and immediately cut their business by 65%. It's only thanks to covid-19 (which has boosted grocery business) that they stay afloatpic.twitter.com/YxHB4QBIK1
A place like Frohlich's is deeply involved in the community. Dollar General is an extractive business that siphons money to Wall Street, leaving behind minimum wage jobs and food deserts. It's become a vampire sucking the life out of small-town grocery stores across rural America
This fits a larger pattern of local business being eaten by giants like WalMart, local journalism being bought up by conglomerates, and schools and hospitals being hollowed out. This is why the Democratic Party can't abandon rural America, even if it's harder to run here.
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