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Hospitals, a buffer for St. Louis in last recession, now share economic pain

By St. Louis Post-Dispatch  
   May 26, 2020

ST. LOUIS — A decade ago, when thousands of the region’s traditional manufacturing jobs disappeared, the hospitals kept hiring. It was the Great Recession. But St. Louis had morphed into a healthcare hub, and hospital systems just kept expanding, buffering the region from the worst of the collapse. This recession is different.

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