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Small-Town America: ‘One Bad Season Away From Bankrupt’

Small-Town America: ‘One Bad Season Away From Bankrupt’
The walking bridge in Ohiopyle State Park on May 4, 2006. Clinton N. Godlesky via Wikimedia
Salena Zito
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OHIOPYLE, Pa.—Like most places in the United States, this tiny patch of a town is struggling to stay afloat. Like most places, people here are trying to help others out. And like most places, those who live and work here wonder whether their community will ever be the same.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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