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Report: Summer camps are ‘economic engine’ for Mass., Northeast

By Chris Reidy

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 14, 2012

Massachusetts is home to more than 800 camp programs, many of them summer camp programs, which collectively account for 1,300 full time employees and 23,000 seasonal workers, according to a new report conducted for a division of the American Camp Association. The youth camping industry has a direct financial benefit of $3.2 billion for the nine states that makes up the association’s Northeast region, including a $417 million benefit for Massachusetts, the report found.

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