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The Hasbro logo is seen on April 26, 2018, in New York. Toymaker Hasbro said Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, that it is cutting about 1,000 jobs as part of moves announced last year to save up to $300 million annually by 2025.
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This Jan. 17, 2017, photo, shows the front entrance of Corn Belt Aluminum in Des Moines, Iowa. Manufacturing businesses across the country are getting pushed out of neighborhoods where they have operated for decades as cities remake gritty industrial districts into trendy hotspots.
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A building stands on Cedar Street in Nickerson, Neb., Tuesday, April 19, 2016. When regional officials announced plans to open a $300 million chicken processing plant employing 1,100 workers, residents packed the firehall and the village board unanimously voted against the plant, and a week later the company gave up, saying they’d take their plant and jobs elsewhere.
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