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Takeaways From AP’s Report on a Beef Plant Closure that Threatens to Unravel a Small Nebraska Town
Closing will eliminate 3,200 direct jobs and up to 7,000 total jobs in Lexington and nearby counties, risking major economic decline in the small Nebraska town.
- Next month, Tyson Foods will close its Lexington, Nebraska beef plant, laying off 3,200 workers when the company shuts the facility on Jan. 20 in a town of around 11,000 people.
- Tyson says it is closing to `right-size` its beef business after a historically low U.S. cattle herd and projected losses; the plant opening in 1990 was acquired by Tyson Foods 11 years later.
- Tyson employees will lose an estimated $241 million in pay and benefits annually, University of Nebraska–Lincoln estimates show about 7,000 regional job losses, and nearly half of Lexington students have a parent at the plant.
- At Dawson County Fairgrounds, officials recently offered retraining and benefits help as a pall hung over the holiday season in Lexington, Nebraska.
- The closure threatens to unravel a town where immigrant workers and Lexington families bought homes, and economist Michael Hicks warned a domino effect could empty schools if 1,000 families leave.
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An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs
Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.
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Nebraska Hospital CEO: Tyson’s “Spreadsheet Decision” Will Devastate Health Care
In a scathing letter to Tyson CEO Donnie King, Lexington hospital CEO Jason Douglas said the company’s decision to leave will devastate health care in the area. “You made a spreadsheet decision … and 3,200 families became nothing more than a line item.”
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