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ployment - 8 percent, and tax effort versus ability index - 8 percent. Fisher said that statistics would be on the town’s side in this category, since Washington had been listed as a "distressed area" in a Department of Housing and Urban Development survey in 1979 because of the high proportion (34 percent) ;>f old houses and unemployment rate (14 percent).
Other weighing points are relationship to state priorities - 8 percent, relationship to regional priorities. 8 percent, a requirement which Washington w ill pass because of the selection of water supply projects as one of the
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