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Despite residency laws, Hempstead workers live elsewhere
Despite a local law in Hempstead Village that requires its employees to live there, a third of its civilian workforce lives outside the village - the community saddled with the highest unemployment rate on Long Island.
Freeport, where the unemployment rate ranks second, has a residency requirement for municipal employees, too. Yet 18 percent of the village's civilian workforce lives elsewhere.
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