'Collateral damage': Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red town
Residents of Lexington, Nebraska, are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would shut down operations early next year.
MS NOW reported Friday from Lexington — the seat of Dawson County, Nebraska, which Trump easily carried with more than 74 percent of the vote last year. Meatpacking company Tyson employs 3,200 people in Lexington, though they will all be out of a job come Jan. 20, when the plant is shutting down.
"Have you ever been in a place where you can just feel the pain and the anxiety? That's what it feels like being here in Lexington, Nebraska," MS NOW reporter Rosa Flores said. "... People have described to me what's happening here by using the words 'catastrophe,' 'crisis,' the feeling of being 'collateral damage,' 'hurt,' 'anxiety,' 'agony.'" ...