Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Two years after Trump put a shovel in the ground, Wisconsin is still waiting on Foxconn to come through


https://news.yahoo.com/two-years-trump-put-shovel-104433964.html

Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
,USA TODAY•October 27, 2020

The Foxconn Technology Group project in Mount Pleasant was billed as an economic game changer for Wisconsin.

In 2018, President Donald Trump came to the village and, alongside then-Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn founder Terry Gou, literally put a golden shovel in the ground and declared the development would become “the eighth wonder of the world.”

Two years later, the project has been dramatically scaled back and has failed to hire enough people to win even the first promised job-creation payments from the state.

And, one week from the Nov. 3 election, one of Trump's signature promises in Wisconsin – part of a pledge to create a boon of manufacturing jobs in the state – is a long way from being fulfilled.


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