With no other coloring option for cherries, fruit cocktail makers say that their sales would drop by 40% without lurid, pink cherries, with a resulting 250 million dollar negative impact on the economy.

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Those mid-wage jobs were often a ticket to the middle class for someone without a college degree, blue and pink collar alike.

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