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Labor fest patrons consider job prospects

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Jobs arescarce in Janesville these days after the closing of the General Motors plant this spring. But Labor Day festivities did not suffer as a result.As Gil Halsted reports even some of the three-thousand people who lost their jobs when the plant closed are optimistic about the future…

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