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In August, the Halifax County Industrial Development Authority eliminated the Marketing director position to cut expenses, which means that Nancy Smith is gone. The marketing functions of the IDA are now being outsourced.<\/p>\n
Irony alert: The agency that’s trying to counteract the effects of jobs being outsourced has now outsourced one of their own jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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