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Lancaster, Pennsylvania - April 06, 2017: Russell Abney, is photographed in his temporary corporate apartment in Lancaster, Pa., Thursday April 6, 2017. In November 2016, he was laid off from his job in Toledo, Ohio, as a manufacturing engineer for First Solar, a U.S. based manufacturer of Solar Panels. Chinese manufactured solar panels undercut American made panels. As a result of profit loss, First Solar laid off 450 workers, Abney being one of them. He found a job in Lancaster as a manufacturing engineer for a ceiling panel company.

CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times
Assignment ID: 30204974A

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania - April 06, 2017: Russell Abney, is photographed in his temporary corporate apartment in Lancaster, Pa., Thursday April 6, 2017. In November 2016, he was laid off from his job in Toledo, Ohio, as a manufacturing engineer for First Solar, a U.S. based manufacturer of Solar Panels. Chinese manufactured solar panels undercut American made panels. As a result of profit loss, First Solar laid off 450 workers, Abney being one of them. He found a job in Lancaster as a manufacturing engineer for a ceiling panel company. <br />
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CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times<br />
Assignment ID: 30204974A