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    Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers
    Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers
    Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers
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    Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers

    Written by PBS NewsHour

    Narrated by PBS NewsHour

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    About this audiobook

    At the tip of Cape Cod, the iconic summer getaway Provincetown has a small year-round population that swells when the weather gets nice, welcoming an estimated 4 to 5 million tourists every year. Businesses there depend on foreign workers willing to work just a few months of the year. But this year, the number of available visas is way down. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewsHour Productions
    Release dateJul 27, 2017
    ISBN9781987109542
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