An urgent call to 'Buy Local'
Job developer Michael Shuman seeks to rebuild struggling communities with home-grown businesses.
By Tim Holt | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
from the February 9, 2009 edition
For Michael Shuman it was the equivalent of an earthquake. Seeking cheaper labor in Canada, Toronto-based Branscan Corp. threw 1,400 people out of work by closing two paper mills in Millinocket, Maine, in 2002. The unemployment rate in this region of central Maine skyrocketed to Depression era levels of nearly 40 percent.
