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“We are so dependent on outside forces, and we are exporting [our] money to them,” says Moriarty. “What if we produced locally, kept money locally, so retail could keep local? … [Then] everybody starts to understand it’s not us versus them, it’s helping our neighbors adapt to needs.”

To Combat Widespread Job Loss, Stay Local and Look to Import Replacement At a time when businesses pivot from making booze to hand sanitizer, and from sewing t-shirts to facemasks, we look at the cities that have already successfully re-localized industry.