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MICHIGAN, N.D. - Matt Kroke offers a grim assessment of managing a store in this sleepy northeastern North Dakota town of 345. 'Someone dies in this town and it affects our bottom line,' he says. Business at the store he runs for his father has slowly deteriorated, leaving Kroke with little choice but to begin closing up and selling off what remains, from the furniture to the bike helmets that had been shelved near the front windows for so long their boxes were faded by the sun. A group of U.S. senators is now proposing that the government help businesses like Kroke's store stay open, even expand, by offering tax breaks and investment cash to slow a depopulation trend across the Great Plains. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and 12 other senators are sponsoring legislation to help counties that have lost more than 10% of their population in the last 20 years. Most of those counties lie in a swath stretching from Texas and New Mexico to Montana and North Dakota...
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