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Collected Item: “Essential Jobs”

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Essential Jobs

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Photograph

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This image represents essential businesses like meat packaging plants that fed america during the pandemic. Essential Jobs like these were hotspots during the pandemic but were critical to feeding americans.

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#UCCOVIDCAPSULE

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BBC News

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2020-11-21
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