Employment
The district's biggest employer is the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, which has a research and maufacturing centre in Ware. The company also has large offices in neighbouring Stevenage and Harlow.
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“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
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“What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)