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...this a good solution - one big factory with monotonous jobs?" Arnalds thinks it is. Unemployment in Iceland - home to some 290,000 people, 60% of whom live in and around the capital, Reykjavík - is only around 3%. But in places like Reydarfjördur and Egilsstadir, the east's main town, many people have moved away in search of jobs as the traditional industries, fishing and farming, have declined. Will young people who have fled the east be drawn back to work in the smelting plant and other businesses that Alcoa's presence may generate when many...
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