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Con Agra Loss Will Ripple Across Nebraska

Con Agra Loss Will Ripple Across Nebraska

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About 1,500 current ConAgra Foods employees will be out of a job when the company moves their headquarters from Omaha to Chicago next year. ConAgra is also relocating about 700 employees. Creighton University Economist Ernie Goss says Omaha will feel the impact of those job losses…..

Goss says ConAgra Foods decision to relocate their headquarters to Chicago is questionable considering the tax conditions in Illinois……

Goss says the loss of 1,500 jobs and the relocation of another 700 will have a ripple effect.

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